His oikoumenè spanned 180 degrees of longitude from the Blessed Islands in the Atlantic Ocean to the middle of China, and about 80 degrees of latitude from Shetland to anti-Meroe ( east coast of Africa ); Ptolemy was well aware that he knew about only a quarter of the globe, and an erroneous extension of China southward suggests his sources did not reach all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

No offence meant: this southward extension of Lewisham High Street badly wanted stiffening.

It was named in honor of John Pierce, then president of the Union Pacific Railroad, in anticipation of the construction of an extension of the Union Pacific line southward into Colorado.

This southward trend in retail occurred despite the extension of Interstate 74 through the city and across the river on the Iowa-Illinois Memorial Bridge in 1974, an infrastructure improvement that made Moline's downtown more accessible and brought thousands of commuters and travelers through Moline each day.

This was later augmented by the southward extension of the Eastern Shore Railroad on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Originally a much larger town, rectangular in shape ( except for a small extension southward taking up part of the modern area of Knight's Corner ) and extending eastward to the top of Prescott Hill ( where Daniel Shays once lived ), the land east of the West Branch of the Swift River was annexed by the town of Prescott in the latter half of the nineteenth centuries ( maps made in 1855 and 1862 both show this land still belonging to Pelham ).

It is so named because it is a southward extension of the master-planned community of Summerlin.

It lies at the northernmost point of the north-south U. S. Interstate 5 and next to Drayton Harbor and Boundary Bay ( the southward extension of Boundary Bay is officially named and often referred to as Semiahmoo Bay ).

George Rennie was brought in to assess the scheme and plan the southward extension.

In a subsequent phase of urban renewal, the rail yards which had formed the Upper West Side's southwest corner were replaced by the Riverside South residential project and a southward extension of Riverside Park.

The section from Plymouth to Exeter is called the ' Devon Expressway ', it forms the southern border of Dartmoor National Park, and serves as a southward extension of the M5 motorway opening in 1977.

The extension of Insurgentes Avenue southward to where the Chilpancingo Metro station is now, led to the establishment of even more colonias.

The Docklands Light Railway station opened in 1999 on a southward extension from Island Gardens on the Isle of Dogs.

The Hakata station reconstruction project was completed in 2011, specifically for the opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen extension from Hakata to Shin-Yatsushiro Station and continuing southward through its existing route to Kagoshima-Chūō Station.

Due to a scribal error in Book III of Marco Polo ’ s travels treating of the route southward from Champa, where the name Java was substituted for Champa as the point of departure, Java Minor was located 1, 300 miles to the south of Java Major, instead of from Champa, on or near an extension of the Terra Australis.

A northward extension of the Hutchinson River Parkway from White Plains to King Street ( modern NY 120A ) in Rye Brook on the Connecticut state line was completed in 1937 and a southward extension from Pelham Manor to Pelham Bay Park opened in December 1937.

The final segment of the parkway — a southward extension to the Bronx – Whitestone Bridge — was completed in 1941 and initially designated NY 1X.

It comprises a southward extension to the Grand Pump Room, in which some remains of the C17 Queen's Bath are merged.

These groups came into conflict with the military colonies and Christian missions which were the main instruments of the extension southward of the Ethiopian state.

One hundred fifty years following its creation, a staircase to the roof was added, along with a southward extension of the mosque itself.

His Oecumene spanned 180 degrees of longitude from the so-called Blessed Islands ( Μακάρων Νήσοι, probably the Cape Verde islands ) in the Atlantic Ocean to the middle of China, and about 80 degrees of latitude from Shetland to anti-Meroe ( east coast of Africa ); Ptolemy was well aware that he knew about only a quarter of the globe, and an erroneous extension of China southward blocked off any awareness of the Pacific Ocean.

It lies along the east edge of a southward extension in the Mare Frigoris.

The first section opened between St. Davids Road and Geneva Street on December 7, 1965, followed by a southward extension to Beaverdams Road in late 1969.

Japan National Route 4 runs to Tokyo in the south, through Fukushima, then north to Sendai and beyond ; Japan National Route 13 begins in Fukushima, runs through Yamagata Prefecture, then terminates in Akita Prefecture ; Japan National Route 114 starts in Fukushima and runs southeast to the town of Namie ; Japan National Route 115 runs through Fukushima, connecting Sōma in the east to Inwashiro in the west ; Japan National Route 399 starts southeast of Fukushima in the city of Iwaki, Fukushima, continues northwest through Fukushima, and terminates in the city of Nan ' yō, Yamagata ; and Japan National Route 459 begins in Niigata, Niigata, runs eastward through Kitakata, through Fukushima, southward to Nihonmatsu, then eastward to Namie.

The waterway begins at Pickwick Lake on the Tennessee River, then flows southward through northeast Mississippi and west Alabama, finally connecting with the established Warrior-Tombigbee navigation system at Demopolis, Alabama.

Highway 115 runs north to Imboden ( and thus connecting to US HWY 412 ) and southward to Cave City in Sharp County.

On the central plateau, the ridge connecting Hat Mountain with Crater Butte served as a divide between ice flowing northward to Badger Flat and Hat Creek and that moving southward to Corral Meadows, Kings Creek and Warner Valley.

Eixo Rodoviário, in Brasília, which is 13 kilometer long and 30 meters wide and is an arterial road connecting the center of that city from both southward and northward wings of Brasília's Plano Piloto, perpendicular to the well known Eixo Monumental ( Monumental Axis in English ), is auto-free on Sundays and holidays.

By 1927, M-78 was extended southward, replacing M-79 to the Indiana state line, connecting with State Road 9 ( SR 9 ) south of Sturgis.

In the early 2000s, further construction resulted in the third section of Route 125, connecting southward from State Route 94 to State Route 54.

The Cold Claw Sea is talon-shaped, stretching eastward a great distance, almost connecting with the Swollen Ocean before curving southward for about two hundred miles, finally ending about seven hundred miles north of New Crobuzon.

L. A. City's Bell Canyon Park is directly adjacent to the north of these two parks, with one trail along Bell Creek and others connecting southward.

That route, along with what was then passing through Booker connected two discontinuous portions of OK 15. was extended to FM 1265 connecting the road to Perryton in 1954, while FM 1265 was extended an additional southward.

Route 3 is a southward continuation of U. S. Route 3, connecting Cambridge, Massachusetts with Cape Cod.

Corydon in 1896, looking southward from Walnut Street. The railroad reached Corydon in 1882.

In seventeen weeks the military front was driven southward more than 100 miles.

The southward route was the classic run in California, and the most fashionable.

The grant, which stretched southward to Lake Traverse -- the headwaters of the Red -- was made in May, 1811, and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson Bay.

It was the low yield of the Selkirk plots and the ravages of grasshoppers in 1818 that led to the dispersal of the settlement southward.

The campaign was designed by John, who was the fulcrum of the alliances ; his plan being to draw the French away from Paris southward against himself and keep him occupied, while the main army, under Emperor Otto IV, marched on Paris from the north.

In the following century the Sayfawa rulers expandeded southward into Kanem, where was to rise their first capital, Njimi.

The Afghan ruler was worried about the southward encroachment of Russia, which by 1873 had taken over the lands of the khan, or ruler, of Khiva.

According to Paul the Deacon's 8th century work Historia Langobardorum, the Langobards migrated southward from Scandinavia led by Ibur and Aio, while Saxo Grammaticus records in his 12th-century work Gesta Danorum that this migration was prompted by Aggi and Ebbi.

Material that was pushed southward by the ice sheet left landforms such as drumlins, kames, and moraines, both on the modern land surface and the lake bottom, reorganizing the region's entire drainage system.

Philip now marched southward into the Berry region, and his primary objective was the fortress of Issoudun, which had just been captured by Richard's mercenary commander, Mercadier.

When South America reconnected to Central America 3 million years ago, there was some dispersal southward, but South American species did not move into Central America.

The bridge was subsequently open to the public to walk southward from Milsons Point or North Sydney.

The territorial secretary departed southward for Boise to avoid the public outrage that was sure to erupt.

In 1857, the Rennes train station was built, which gradually led to the southward sprawl of the town.

Pannonia was an ancient province of the Roman Empire bounded north and east by the Danube, coterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia.

It was originally announced that the new gauge railroad would proceed south from Denver and travel an estimated south to El Paso via Pueblo, westward along the Arkansas River, and continue southward through the San Luis Valley of Colorado toward the Rio Grande River.

The Germans ' next tactical move, on the right bank of the Meuse river, was to continue to press southward towards the city of Verdun.

About 10, 900 years ago, the Niagara Falls was located between present-day Queenston, Ontario, and Lewiston, New York, but erosion of their crest has caused the waterfalls to retreat approximately southward.

The Bavarians suffered a severe reverse near Braunau ( 9 May 1743 ), and now an Anglo-allied army commanded by King George II, which had been formed on the lower Rhine on the withdrawal of Maillebois, was advancing southward to the Main and Neckar country.

Japan had sought to claim sovereignty over Taiwan ( known to them as Takasago Koku ) since 1592, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi undertook a policy of overseas expansion and extending Japanese influence southward, to the west, was invaded and an attempt to invade Taiwan and subsequent invasion attempts were to be unsuccessful due mainly to disease and attacks by aborigines on the island.

In 1799, the southern boundary of Columbia County was moved southward to include that portion of Livingston Manor located in Dutchess County.

Gen. Johnston was eventually forced into maneuvering the Army southward to the defenses of Richmond during the opening of the Peninsula Campaign, where it conducted delay and defend tactics until Johnston was severely wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines.