What is the eastern point of the american continent?
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Depends on how you define continent; if it includes island territories, you get one answer. If it doesn't, you get another.\n\nFurthest east point of North America is Nordost Rundingen (Greenland) at longitude 12.08 degrees W. However, Greenland is an island.\n\nNext furthest (but still on an island) is Cape Spear, Newfoundland (Canada) at 52.37 degrees W.\n\nOn the continent proper, it would be Cape St Charles, Newfoundland (actually, Labrador ... still in Canada) at 55.37 degrees W.\n\nSurprisingly, the most northern inhabited location in the world is in the running as well ... Alert, Nunavut (yep, Canadian!) at 62.30 degrees W.
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Due south if you're north of the 22nd degree latitude, the tropic of cancer.\n\nBetween the tropics, the highest point of the sun can be directly overhead, or move north or south.
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"East Pole" - where the "Land of the Rising Sun" is, i.e. JAPAN.\n"West Pole" - where the "Wild Wild West" is, i.e. Texas, US\nHee! Hee!
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East:any travel direction that goes from left to right on a map is east.
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atlantic ocean\n\n:> peace\n.
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Canada's Nova Scotia, New Foundland.It sticks out east miles from Maine.
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south eastern. I lived there
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You are right. It can be an extension of Asia because there is no real delineation between Asia and Europe, like Africa, Americas and Australia. We can as well call it Eurasia. Whaddya say?
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europe, africa, antarctica, south america, north america
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>>WHERE IS THE GEOGRAPHIC CENTER OF THE UNITED STATES?   \n  \nThe geographic center of the conterminous U.S. (48 states) is near Lebanon, Kansas. The geographic center of the U.S. including Alaska and Hawaii is west of Castle Rock, South Dakota. The geographic center of the North American continent is 6 miles west of Balta, North Dakota. The geographic center of Illinois is Logan, 28 miles northeast of Springfield. \n\nSOURCE: \nThe World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998.  Mahwah, N.J.: World Almanac Books, 1997.\n\nLast Updated: 4/99<<
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united  states  of  america.
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alaska is \nWe are often asked the question....."What are the most northern, southern, eastern and western U.S. States?" Well, if you include all 50 states in the answer, and you should, the answers are: \n\n(Northern is Alaska) (Southern is Hawaii) \n\n(Eastern is Alaska) (Western is Alaska) \n\n If you note the map above, Alaska is clearly the most northern state, and Hawaii, at 20º North, is without doubt the most southern state. (Note how much further south it is than Florida} \n\n As far as the most western state, note how Alaska's Aleutian Islands stretch right up to the edge of the Western Hemisphere at the 180º line of Longitude, thus the most western state in the country. \n\n Alaska is also the answer for eastern, as the Aleutian Islands stretch across the 180º line of Longitude, into the Eastern Hemisphere, and up the edge of the Russian Federation. \n\nIf you exclude Alaska and Hawaii, the answers are: \n\nMost Northern Point: Angle, Minnesota, at 49º 23'N \n\nMost Southern Point: East Cape, Florida, at 25º 7'N \n\nMost Eastern Point: West Quoddy Head, Maine, at 66º 57'W \n\nMost Western Point: Cape Alva, Washington, at 124º 44'W
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Africa! Eastern Africa, to be precise.
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The United States, \nsince America geographically refers to the entire new world; north, central and south.
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Nothing, really. What is west is also east. San Francisco is west of New York because you can go west across the US from New York to San Francisco. But also San Francisco is east of New York, because you can cross the Atlantic, go across Europe and Asia, then cross the Pacific Ocean to get to San Francisco. If you go east far enough, you get back to where you started. So every place is east of itself, and also west of itself.\n\nNorth and South are not like that. You can't go any farther north than the North Pole, or any farther south than the South Pole.There are no East or West Poles.\n\nPerhaps one could define x as being east of y if going east from x to y is shorter than going west from x to y. A similar definition could define west.
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Antarctica is the continent
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Up until relatively recently, one of the island chains belonging to the state of Alaska was technically on the other side of the International Date Line from the rest of the country. This meant that the islands were the furthest "east" someone could go (without crossing the date line), yet the state itself, generally speaking, was the furthest west land area of the political entity known as the United States of America. \n\nThe same thing happened with another small island group inthe south-central Pacific ... basically, one half of the country was on one side of the date line and the other half was on the other.\n\nThe date line was subsequently "jiggled", to keep those countries whose territories are in the vicinity of the date line to remain "on the same side".\n\nTherefore, (from the US perspective) Alaska is - at present - the WESTERNMOST state, and Maine is the EASTERNMOST (neglecting the off-shore protectorates of Puerto Rico and Guam).\n\nHowever, we ALSO need to look at how longitude is measured. "Eastward" occurs from the line of 0 longitude (approximately Greenwich England) and moves toward Europe and Asia. "Westward" occurs from the same starting point and moves west over the Atlantic and across North America. The line of longitude that is directly opposite from 0 would be 180 ... which happens to pass through Alaska. Thus Alaska could be both "eastern- and western-most"