northmost

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Japan's southern spearhead, plunging upward from Suichung, was for some reason largely composed of the Empire's most cold-hardened troops, soldiers from Hokkaido, northmost major island of Japan.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of tender-hearted Adolf Hitler's first acts after he became Chancellor in 1933 was to declare the northmost end of Sylt Island in the North Sea a "bird sanctuary."

From Time Magazine Archive

And Boromir will tell you that that is a great open vale that lies between the Misty Mountains and the northmost foothills of Ered Nimrais, the White Mountains of his home.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

They lay now peering over the edge of a rocky hollow beneath the outstretched shadow of the northmost buttress of Ephel Dúath.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

They place it near the northmost of the two curtained columns.

From Caesar and Cleopatra by Shaw, Bernard