What's the difference between easternmost and southernmost?
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.
Southernmost
Definition:
(a.) Farthest south.
Example Sentences:
(1) A retrospective evaluation of 136 newborns treated with mechanical ventilation between 1983 and 1989 at the chilean's southernmost regional hospital of Punta Arenas is presented.
(2) Kennedy's first trip to Japan's southernmost prefecture comes as Tokyo seeks guarantees of Washington's support over its long-running dispute with China over ownership of the Senkaku islands, in the East China Sea.
(3) The stretch of water between Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South America, and Antarctica is many a mariner’s graveyard.
(4) • €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).
(5) In contrast, M' strains are currently observed in the southernmost French populations and in all Spanish ones, so that there is a clear pattern in their geographical distribution.
(6) In 1984, a cross-sectional survey was carried out in Quitafine, the southernmost district of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, as part of an ongoing health project in the area.
(7) O. nigripes is a small wild rodent and it appears to be the main definitive host of A. costaricensis in the highlands of RS, Brazil's southernmost State.
(8) Hamadoun cast doubt on reports that Douentza, one of the southernmost towns under Islamist control, had been recaptured by the Malian army this week.
(9) This is almost the southernmost point of the European mainland, and the feeling of blessed isolation would be hard to beat.
(10) Condors soared above the world’s southernmost forest.
(11) Most of the country, including the main city, Kuala Lumpur, was not as badly affected, though two southernmost towns recorded hazardous air quality.
(12) Epidemiological investigations of mental disorders among the aged population were conducted in two rural areas of the southernmost prefecture of Japan.
(13) Primorye is the southernmost region of the Soviet Far East and the extreme southeastern area of the Soviet Union.
(14) Prince Charles and Prince Harry read at the service at the Cape Helles memorial, a towering stone obelisk on the southernmost tip of the Gallipoli peninsula whose square base walls bear the names of the 20,673 British and Commonwealth servicemen who lost their lives near here “and who have no known grave”.
(15) Eight hundred second chromosomes were extracted from the Ishigakijima population, one of the southernmost populations of Drosophila melanogaster in Japan.
(16) Incidence was somewhat higher in the eastern Gulf animals, but the organism was present to the southernmost limits of both Texas and Florida.
(17) Xylella fastidiosa , also known as olive leaf scorch, has taken hold in the Apulia region at the southernmost tip of Italy , where several thousand hectares of olive plantations are now affected.
(18) China’s space program also opened its massive fourth spacecraft launch site at Wenchang on China’s southernmost island province of Hainan in June.
(19) The southernmost cases lived in proximity to the 59th parallel.
(20) Located close to Porto Alegre (another World Cup host city) this southernmost area was largely settled by poor European migrants.