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Definition of Northernmost
1. Adjective. Situated farthest north. "Alaska is our northernmost state"
Definition of Northernmost
1. a. Farthest north.
Definition of Northernmost
1. Adjective. Farthest north. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Northernmost
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Northernmost
Literary usage of Northernmost
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Oregon and California, and the Other Territories of the North by Robert Greenhow (1845)
"In those maps, Jesso, the northernmost of the Japan Islands, appears as part of
the Asiatic continent, and Kamtchatka and the Kurile Islands are represented ..."
2. Under the Rays of the Aurora Borealis: In the Land of the Lapps and Kvæns by Sophus Tromholt (1885)
"THE northernmost TOWN IN THE WOULD—A SAD BUT BUSY TOWN— A ... THE SUN—AT THE FOOT
OF THE NORTH CAPE—WHICH is TUB northernmost PROMONTORY IN EUROPE ? ..."
3. The Confederation of the British North American Provinces: Their Past by Thomas Rawlings (1865)
"THE cultivated plants yield the greatest products near the northernmost limit in
which they will grow. I have been forcibly impressed with this fact, ..."
4. Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship by Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Neumann Sverdrup (1898)
"... THE northernmost POINT OF THE OLD WORLD ing which I went up into the crow's-nest
again, to have a last look at the land. I now saw that the height I had ..."
5. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1878)
"The northernmost Fish. The northernmost fish known was found by Captain Feil-
den during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76, and is a Sal- monid of the same ..."
6. In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times by Fridtjof Nansen (1911)
"... of 1482 and 1486, where Greenland is placed to the north of Norway, and Marco
Polo's travels, northernmost Europe and the North Polar regions on ..."
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