On 22 June, Nelson encountered a brig sailing from Ragusa and was told that the French had sailed eastwards from Malta on 16 June.

He carried out extensive linguistic and anthropological research in the area ranging from Senegal eastwards to the Upper Nile.

Most of the country lies within the wide band of desert that stretches eastwards from Africa's Atlantic Coast across the continent and into southwest Asia.

Especially so because of the lingering effect of the Swedish and Russian rule in their time, before the Finns first gained autonomy, and because of the precarious powerbalance eastwards, springing from a geographically extended yet sparsely populated state with a traditionally imperialist superpower right across the Eastern border.

The main German formations then advanced rapidly eastwards from Hanko and took Helsinki on 12 – 13 April.

Up to 100, 000 Arabs, from the urban upper and middle classes in Haifa, Jaffa and Jerusalem, or Jewish-dominated areas, evacuated abroad or to Arab centres eastwards.

He marched from the Cotswolds, feigned an offensive to relieve the besieged Windsor Castle, and attacked eastwards around London to Cambridge to separate the rebel-held areas of Lincolnshire and East Anglia.

Early development occurred in the Levant ( e. g., Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B ) and from there spread eastwards and westwards.

This convention is used, in particular, for geographical coordinates, where the " zenith " direction is north and positive azimuth ( longitude ) angles are measured eastwards from some prime meridian.

These German positions dominated Ypres and unless neutralised, would be able to enfilade any British attack eastwards from the salient.

Most mahogany was cut in the province of Tabasco and exported from a number of ports on the Gulf of Campeche, from Vera Cruz eastwards to Campeche and Sisal.

The Navajo or Diné, live in a wide area stretching from the San Francisco Peaks eastwards towards the Four Corners.

* North-south Class-A roads located eastwards of road E 99 have three-digit odd numbers from 101 to 129.

* Class-B roads located eastwards of E 101 have 3-digit numbers beginning with 0, from 001 to 099.

The northernmost part of the Eurasian land mass, from the extreme northeastern coast of Scandinavia and eastwards to the Bering Strait, large areas of northern Siberia and northern Iceland have tundra climate as well.

When Herodotus wrote his Histories in the 5th century BC, Greeks distinguished Scythia Minor in present-day Romania and Bulgaria from a Greater Scythia that extended eastwards for a 20-day ride from the Danube River, across the steppes of today's East Ukraine to the lower Don basin.

Following the Allied breakout from Normandy and the closure of the Falaise pocket, Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower favoured pursuit of the seemingly shattered German armies northwards and eastwards across the Seine, and ultimately to the Rhine on a broad front.

It seems to have originated in eastern tropical Africa and spread from there to Northern Europe and eastwards into Asia to the Tien Shan range.

From the Dorah eastwards the crest of the Hindu Kush again became the boundary until it effects a junction with the Muztagh and Sarikol ranges, which shut off China from Russia and India.

Sheep Street runs from Ely Street eastwards to the Waterside.

The 26th Infantry Regiment's three battalions, having been attached to the 16th, 18th and 115th Regiments the previous day, spent June 8 reassembling before pushing eastwards, forcing the 1st battalion of the German 726th Grenadiers to spend the night extricating itself from the pocket thus forming between Bayeux and Port-en-Bessin.

* The Peace of Phoenice prohibits Philip from expanding westward into Illyria or the Adriatic Sea, so the king turns his attentions eastwards to the Aegean Sea, where he starts to build a large fleet.

Saga says that " eastwards from Namdalen is Jämtland ", but actually the direction is southeast.

Had Thorolf gone up to the mountains around his homeland Namdalen and then straight " eastwards ", i. e. southeast, he would have first arrived to Jämtland and then to Hälsingland.

* The second possibility as a culture associated with the Nostratic family is the Zarzian ( 12, 400 – 8500 BCE ) culture of the Zagros mountains, stretching northwards into Kobistan in the Caucasus and eastwards into Iran.

The lower mountains in the extreme west are wooded, but the extent of forest declines eastwards, and the eastern Pyrenees are peculiarly wild and barren, all the more since it is in this part of the chain that granitic masses prevail.

Still, on the whole and over time, the balance of the water flow is eastwards, due to an evaporation rate within the Mediterranean basin higher than the combined inflow of all the rivers that empty into it.

It is primarily located in a swath running along both banks of the upper and middle Oder ( Odra ) river, but it extends eastwards to the upper Vistula river.

The Varangians or Varyags ( Russian,, Varyagi ) sometimes referred to as Variagians were Scandinavians, often Swedes, who migrated eastwards and southwards through what is now Russia and Ukraine mainly in the 9th and 10th centuries.

* 327 Alexander invades Northern India, but his army is despondent and refuses to march further eastwards.

It is quite common in the Mediterranean region eastwards to the Black Sea but is less common in its northern range being uncommon or local in Germany and Ireland.

The Western provinces have coordinated their highway numbers so that the main Trans-Canada route is designated Highway 1 and the Yellowhead route is designated Highway 16 throughout ; however, from the Manitoba – Ontario border eastwards, the highway numbers change at each provincial boundary.

It is found south of the Rothaargebirge, southwest of the Lahn-Dill-Bergland ( another low mountain range ), north of the Taunus and east of the Middle Rhine and stretches more or less southwards from Siegen and Burbach, southwestwards from Haiger, northwestwards from Weilburg, northwards from Limburg an der Lahn, northeastwards from Koblenz, eastwards from Linz am Rhein, southeastwards from Wissen and southwards from Betzdorf.

To the east is the Cook Strait Canyon with steep walls descending eastwards into the bathyal depths of the Hikurangi Trench.

The land on which the city is built was once part of a 24, 000 acre ( 97 km² ) land grant called Colen Donck that ran from the current Manhattan / Bronx border at Marble Hill northwards for 12 miles ( 19 km ), and from the Hudson River eastwards to the Bronx River.

It is actually located to the south, near the top of a small, rugged, unnamed draw running eastwards from the spring, and is itself a tributary to Beal's Creek, the name given to Sulphur Draw as it flows into, through, and past the city of Big Spring.

The town also extends eastwards up the valley through which the Estero de Reñaca flows, it is here that the majority of the year-round population lives.

It has also been suggested that the Stanegate may have run eastwards from Corstopitum towards present-day Newcastle, but there is no evidence to support this.

The most distinctive feature of the headwaters of the Little Ouse and the Waveney is the valley in which they flow ; the Little Ouse westwards and the Waveney, eastwards.

There are clear parallels between Heidegger and the work of Kyoto School, and ultimately, it may be read that Heidegger's philosophy is an attempt to ' turn eastwards ' in response to the crisis in Western civilization.

The village of Bardsey is further eastwards on the A58 towards Wetherby.

Smith writes that, " By this stage of the war the court in Vienna was convinced that it was no longer worth the effort to try to keep their Netherlands provinces and it is suspected that Coburg gave up the chance of a victory here so as to be able to pull out eastwards.

Moving further up the valley, another local community is Rundhaug, and moving eastwards, closer to Øvre Dividal National Park, is the community of Øverbygd, housing two more sub-communities Skjold and Holt.