furthest point
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The winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere in the UK when Earth's axis is tilted at its furthest point from the Sun.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
The Northern Hemisphere, which includes the US, is tipped at its furthest point away from the sun when the winter solstice occurs, according to NASA.
From Fox News ● Dec. 20, 2021
The third book from Los Angeles writer Wendy Ortiz extends this inward trajectory of dream writing to its furthest point: “Bruja” goes so far inward that the waking world doesn’t feature at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2016
In 1991, it was set to its furthest point so far, 17 minutes to midnight.
From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2013
Beyond the Cape, the furthest point that Dias reached he named the Rio do Infante, the River of the Crown Prince, after Prince Henry, now called the Navigator.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
