westernmost

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On New Island, the westernmost island in the archipelago, scientists have uncovered possible evidence of human settlement consistent with the mobile, sea-faring culture of the Yagán.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2024

ET, when polls closed in the final four counties in the westernmost part of the state’s Upper Peninsula.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2024

These rivers and their associated basins also mark the westernmost and easternmost distribution boundaries of the Ayeyarwady pit viper.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

Marapi is located on Sumatra, the westernmost and third largest of Indonesia's 18,000 islands.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023

He drank what water he had left in the sealskin pouch, and steered around the westernmost headland until he came into a wide strait between it and a second island lying to the west.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin