westernmost

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Those river systems and their surrounding basins also mark the westernmost and easternmost known distribution limits of the species described in the study.

From Science Daily • Apr. 21, 2026

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

Cimarron County is the westernmost county at the tip of the Oklahoma Panhandle with a population of fewer than 2,300 people.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 16, 2024

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