What's the difference between easternmost and northernmost?
Easternmost
Definition:
(a.) Most eastern.
Example Sentences:
(1) The initiative, unveiled last summer and currently being evaluated by Maine governor Paul LePage's administration, would make America's easternmost county the first to waive such taxes in a state that has them, and is intended to showcase economic libertarians' contention that taxes are a central impediment to economic development.
(2) To give the plan a fighting chance, Ecuador committed to forego half of the estimated value of the oil in its easternmost concession block if it received a total of US$3.2bn over a period of 13 years.
(3) Michael Brown , who bankrolled the party with £2.4m of stolen money, was detained near the resort of Punta Cana on the easternmost tip of the Caribbean island this week.
(4) Forecasting snow is always challenging and there’s often a fine line between whether it will rain or snow in a particular location depending on slight changes in air temperature.” The outlook for the UK over the weekend was for generally dry weather on Saturday, with sunny spells across most of England and Scotland and a few showers, locally wintry, in Northern Ireland and western and easternmost parts of Britain.
(5) The genetic polymorphism of eight red cell enzymes was analyzed in four population samples from the two easternmost islands of the Canary Archipelago.
(6) Serum samples from 475 male and 420 female subjects from the population of eastern Caprivi, the north-easternmost territory in northern Namibia, were examined for the presence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), antibodies to HBsAg (anti-HBs) and hepatitis B core antigen (anti-HBc).
(7) Waging war!” After two years of relative calm, the sounds of war have returned to the easternmost part of Turkey , where Kurds have lived on the frontline of a bloody conflict between the Turkish state and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) for decades.
(8) Before 2010 it had mostly engaged in low-key terrorism – daredevil raids on police stations to steal weapons, on banks to steal money and on prisons to free jailed terror suspects – confined to the north-easternmost part of the country.
(9) • Russian troops have taken over a ferry terminal on the easternmost tip of Crimea in the city of Kerch and Russian armoured cars were lining up on the Russian side of the Kerch Channel .
(10) The 45-year-old son of a local councillor and electric power station director, Hofer was born in Burgenland, Austria’s easternmost and least prosperous state, trained as an aeronautical engineer and spent his early career at Lauda Air.
(11) If there’s war again, it will be all-out civil war.” In Şemdinli, a small town nestling in Turkey’s easternmost corner between the Iranian and Iraqi borders, and where PKK fighters led their first armed attack against Turkish security forces in 1984, hope for peace is hanging by a thread.
(12) The bishop of Burgenland, Austria’s easternmost province, recently refused to let Austrian authorities erect a border fence on church land, saying erecting borders was against the Gospel message – but only this week he warned that Europe must not be “too naive” regarding plans to Islamise Europe.
(13) Part of Indonesia’s easternmost Papua province on New Guinea island, West Papua is ethnically distinct from the rest of the country and was annexed by Indonesia in 1969.
(14) Water Street, the main drag in Eastport, America's easternmost incorporated city, is missing something: boarded up storefronts.
(15) It appears that this parasite occurs only on the easternmost islands of the Indonesian archipelago where it is nonetheless a rare finding.
(16) The sources said he was at the early, information-gathering stages of an investigation into a suspected smuggling operation, and noted that elements of the FSB – the Federal Security Bureau, successor to the Soviet KGB – were heavily involved in trafficking of contraband products across the European Union's easternmost border with Russia.
(17) Waiters in the hotels along Punta Cana beach, a curve of white sand on the easternmost tip of the Dominican Republic , say the Scottish man in bermuda shorts is known as the owner of Charlie, a rottweiler-alsatian cross which is usually by his side.
(18) Ethnohistorical records suggest that the Meiteis are of Mongoloid origin, while the original Brahmin settlers represent the easternmost part of the so-called Caucasoids.
(19) Separately, video has emerged of a conversation between a journalist and a soldier in Kerch in easternmost Crimea in which the soldier admits to being Russian and says he’s there to defend against terrorists.
(20) While on the island, Brown has been based in the province of La Altagracia, the easternmost tip of the Republic close to some of its most beautiful beaches.
Northernmost
Definition:
(a.) Farthest north.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anopheles hermsi was collected in San Mateo County, CA, which is now the northernmost known limit of this species.
(2) The hip-fracture incidence in persons aged 50 years and older in the two northernmost counties of Sweden was studied during three periods between 1973 and 1984.
(3) Starting from the northernmost point of the island, it follows a varied course along high sea-cliffs and mountain ridges, taking in low lying crofts, villages deserted many years ago by the Highland Clearances, and modern day settlements, and gives a real taste of the island, its landscape, culture and heritage.
(4) The northernmost beaches, Anglesey Porth Llanlleiana bay, Anglesey.
(5) • €200 for three nights and free access to two archery centres, tiroler-adler.at Road cycling in Ireland Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wild Atlantic Cycling is a new, small travel company running cycling holidays along the Wild Atlantic Way , the route from the southernmost to northernmost tip of Ireland (Mizen to Malin).
(6) To determine whether there is a direct correlation between endurance capacity and cold tolerance, maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max), and cold-induced vasodilatation (CIVD), we measured these factors in 14 young female athletes born in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island.
(7) However, it could be worse in some locations, just as we saw record thermal stress in the northernmost Mariana Islands and the north-western Hawaiian islands in 2014.” Predicted thermal stress in Indian Ocean.
(8) Few cities in the developed world can have been put as comprehensively through the wringer as Yubari, on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido and known in its heyday as the capital of coal.
(9) Patmos, one of the northernmost of the Dodecanese islands, is weathering the current storm because it’s a special island.
(10) A study of the incidence of uncomplicated optic neuritis (ON) in the period 1972-1984 and the subsequent risk of later developing of multiple sclerosis (MS) was performed in the two northernmost counties of Norway.
(11) The geographical influence was eliminated by excluding the 6 northernmost clinics, but the frequency of operations still varied with a factor of nearly 5 between the clinics.
(12) The one-year birth cohort of 12 058 children, 96% of all children born in the two northernmost provinces of Finland, Oulu and Lapland, in 1966 was studied prospectively up to the age of 14 years.
(13) This is the northernmost occurrence of this parasite reported in North America.
(14) Beyond here is the northernmost tip of the island, Cape Gourouni (Pig), and two more tiny strips of sand, Fat George Beach and Dead Woman Beach.
(15) This island is the northernmost region of white-tailed deer distribution in northeastern North America.
(16) Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur Sevilla and Internazionale Which of the 24 competing countries has the northernmost point?
(17) Now, around its northernmost branches where the minarets and pylons thin out and the landscape becomes more windswept, another is playing out to devastating effect.
(18) This is the first isolation in the USSR of a California complex virus in the Arctic and the northernmost site of Tahyna virus isolation in the world.
(19) It was the northernmost point struck by a rocket in the present conflict.
(20) Two northernmost administrative districts of Finland.