What is "northeastern"

Usage examples of "northeastern".

As the Akron approached the pyramid, the great cavity in the northeastern slope became more apparent.

Gordon Bennett was born at New Mill, Keith, in Banffshire, on the northeastern coast of Scotland, about the year 1800.

They dwell mainly in northeastern Arizona and produce superb pottery, carpets, basketwork, and inlaid and overlaid silver jewelry which is in great demand.

Frankincense comes from the Boswellia tree, which grows in the highlands of northeastern Somalia.

Manila and destructive in Cagayan and Isabela Provinces, northeastern Luzon.

Not quite an acre in size, it was shaped like a cloven hoof, the split on its northeastern It side forming a cove that plunged to a depth of at least a hundred fathoms and was densely forested with eelgrass along its inshore ledges.

One was a group of Hazara resistants, bottled up in the mountains of Dara-i-Suf, and the other was Massoud himself, in the impregnable Panjshir Valley and the northeastern corner called Badakhshan.

The Mogollon of the eastern region, the Anasazi of the northeastern highlands, and the Hohokam of southern Arizona, who had been able to raise crops in a barren desert because of the irrigation ditches they had scraped out with stones and shells.

Since very little has been written about northeastern Ontario, either fictional or nonfictional, I was forced to rely on self-published memoirs, obtained through interlibrary loans, for a great deal of my research.

Scarcely had the man entered the wall of trees before he stopped and began to talk out loud, in the Kanuri dialect of northeastern Nigeria.

Finally, many Hmong had a huge personal stake in the war because they lived in the mountains surrounding its most crucial theater of operation: the Plain of Jars, a plateau in northeastern Laos through which communist troops from the north would have to march in any attempt to occupy the administrative capital of Vientiane, on the Thai border.

Lakshman was suddenly face to face with the rear end of a mithun, a buffalo-bison crossbreed from the northeastern hills.

Stora Mine lies on an eroded peneplane at the northeastern edge of Storaberg Mt.

The tallest of them, StOmer, stood high above the others, its conical snowcap already glowing a musky white as it guarded the northeastern extremity of the range.

After meeting with Hungarian President Arpad Goncz and seeing our troops in Taszar, I flew on to Tuzla in northeastern Bosnia, the area for which the United States was responsible.