What is "due north"

Usage examples of "due north".

The site was a half mile due north of the corner where Christopher Byers and Michael Moore lived.

But with Johan piloting I had no worries, except perhaps when we turned due north up the long sheer slate-grey line of Fitful Head.

He gave them the last known location of the aircraft from earlier in the day-east of Tikrit and almost due north of Lake Tharthar.

Grant was just holding enough height to reach the Eritrean coast at a spot mid-way between the towns of Mersa Teklay and Gulbub - seventy miles due north of Asmara, and only a few minutes' flying time now from the drop-zone.

But with recent history as it is, when the winds of anti-gringo opinion begin to blow, they blow due north, toward the United States, which to the Latin American is more easily identifiable with capitalism and imperialism than any other country in the world.

He was so shook up that he hit the road, and for some reason that road aimed due north five hundred miles, leading up out of flat plains and the desert country into high mountain's, and--maybe a year after the death of his family--to a job at the Dancing Trout Dude Ranch, guiding tourists on horseback through the summertime Midnight Mountains.