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Example sentences for "southernmost"

Lexicographically close words:
southeastern; southeastward; southerly; southermost; southern; southernwood; southing; southmost; southpaw; southward
  1. It is about 45 miles north-east from Cape Bowling Green, and is the southernmost of the passages used by shipping through the Barrier.

  2. With four men and eighteen dogs from his ship, the Fram, Captain Amundsen crossed the great ice barrier and reached the southernmost point of the world in fifty-five days.

  3. The best anchoring-place is Talcaguana, the southernmost neck of the bay, in five or six fathom water, good holding ground, and where you are sheltered from the northerly winds.

  4. The southernmost Yakuts have the horse, the middlemost the rein-deer, the northernmost the dog.

  5. We now take the other extremity of the Eskimo area, which is the southernmost point of Greenland, Cape Farewell, within a few days' sail of the European island of Iceland.

  6. Conterminous with the southernmost section of the Gallas.

  7. This is the southernmost limit of the Eastern Algonkins.

  8. A great terminal moraine marks the southernmost limit of the ice sheet during the Ice Age, a very fine illustration being the ridge of low irregular hills extending the whole length of Long Island.

  9. The heights of Staten Island with Fort Richmond are seen, to the right of them are the Narrows, and farther to the right the southernmost high coast of Long Island, gradually fading from the view.

  10. The Fayyum is the southernmost limit of his historical knowledge, because it is also the southernmost limit of his geographical knowledge.

  11. It is, in fact, merely based on what he could see from the southernmost point to which he attained.

  12. In the year 1486 Bartholomew Diaz, trying to find the land of Prester John by sea, had reached the southernmost point of Africa.

  13. The little Sand Key, seven miles to the southwest, is the southernmost point of the United States.

  14. The province of Alicante--the southernmost of the three into which the ancient kingdom is divided--contains several important towns.

  15. A later description (1710) reads: "Between the southernmost cliffs of Tappaen and Ahasimus, at a place called Wiehake.

  16. For Pentegoet was the southernmost {182} station of the French, standing on soil claimed by the English, and granted by Charles II to the Duke of York.

  17. The southernmost point of Attica was Sunium, sacred to Minerva; Marathon, the scene of the most brilliant victory which the Athenians ever fought, was in the eastern part of Attica.

  18. In the early morning of the 14th of August the Russian cruisers reached their old hunting-ground, and the critical point in their course--the narrow channel that separates the southernmost Japanese islands from the Korean promontory.

  19. The general impression was that Formosa, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago, would be chosen.

  20. From other ancient authorities it appears that Lysefjord was the southernmost fjord in the Western Settlement [now Fiskerfjord, cf.

  21. The shipwreck may consequently be supposed to have taken place on the southernmost part of the east coast.

  22. Nabonidus still called Gaza the southernmost landmark of his kingdom.

  23. They include the Tamil in the southernmost part of the Deccan, extending from Palikat (north of Madras) to Cape Comorin and east of a line drawn to the same cape from Bangalore through Coimbatore.

  24. In severe winters the cariboos travel to the southernmost limits of their haunts, and even sometimes enter the settlements.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "southernmost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.