140th

Updated: June 6, 2025

From this they obtained abundant supplies of water, and, therefore, kept along its banks till it turned to the eastward; then abandoning it, they marched due north, keeping along the 140th meridian, through forests of boxwood, alternating with plains well watered and richly covered with grass.

Alexander Sutherland - History of Australia and New Zealand: From 1606 to 1890