What is "due east"

Usage examples of "due east".

Peters came back with, 'Wilco', as the two F-5's looped around and set a course due east, flying at their minimum speed with a curious waddling movement, their noses in the air, like ducks walking on their tails.

The jungle seemed to fight him every inch of the way, but as he walked in a due east direction, the breaking of the waves had gotten stronger and clearer.

It was superbly sited: as you left the Chesapeake your shallop moved due east through the channel north of the island, then turned south to enter the broad estuary leading to Devon Creek.

After driving almost due east and rendezvousing with the remnant of TF 77.

Turning due east, he stood high in his stirrups and looked back along the path they'd just traveled.

Almost imperceptibly I found that I was walking southeast, then due east, and eventually northeast.

They're going to work the deep waters just off the continental shelf, due east of Charleston.

There the road, which had been veering southwards between the brink of the channel and a steep fall of the land to the left, turned and went due east again.