Valence lies at the northernmost band of olive cultivation: the local saying à Valence le Midi commence, " at Valence the Midi begins " pays tribute to the city's southern culture.

The largest fruiting olive tree in Britain is there, protected by the garden ’ s heat-trapping high brick walls, along with what is doubtless the world ’ s northernmost grapefruit growing outdoors.

Even Norway, despite daily but limited manifestations against atomic arms in the heart of this northernmost capital of the alliance, is today closer to the NATO line.

The ice reaches its maximum extent in February or March ; typical ice thickness in the northernmost areas in the Bothnian Bay, the northern basin of the Gulf of Bothnia, is about for landfast sea ice.

In the northernmost reaches of the Bothnian Bay, ice usually stays until late May ; by early June it is practically always gone.

The uplift is about eight millimetres per year on the Finnish coast of the northernmost Gulf of Bothnia.

The northern part of the Baltic Sea is known as the Gulf of Bothnia, of which the northernmost part is the Bay of Bothnia

The Cerros de Escazú borders the Central Valley to the south and is considered the northernmost portion of the Cordillera de Talamanca.

The Hammersmith End ( or Hammy ) is the northernmost stand in the ground, and, hence the name, the closest to Hammersmith.

The northernmost part of the state is part of the Appalachian Piedmont with hills and rolling surfaces.

Despite its small size ( roughly from its northernmost to southernmost points ), there is significant variation in mean temperature and amount of snowfall between Sussex County and New Castle County.

This trait is common in the northernmost part of Norway, where life and culture was based on fishing more than anywhere else.

Motion along this fault is the source of earthquakes in northernmost El Salvador.

The northernmost Yupik languages — Siberian Yupik and Naukanski Yupik — are linguistically only slightly closer to Inuit than is Alutiiq, which is the southernmost of the Yupik languages.

Barrow, the northernmost city in the United States, is in the Inupiaq region.

Bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, as well as Sweden, Norway, and Russia, Finland is the northernmost country on the European continent.

* The Finnish capital, Helsinki, is the northernmost capital city on the mainland of the European continent, and ranks as third globally.

* The nation itself is the second northernmost country in Europe after Iceland, third place if one considers the Norwegian overseas-territory of Svalbard, an island in the Arctic Ocean, part of Europe.

The world's northernmost motorway is also located in Finland between Keminmaa and Tornio ( Main road 29 / E8 ).

The northernmost point of the Island of Greenland is Cape Morris Jesup, discovered by Admiral Robert Peary in 1909.

The gateway to the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean, where the southernmost tip of Spain and the northernmost of Morocco face each other, is, classically speaking, referred to as the Pillars of Hercules / Heracles, owing to the story that he set up two massive spires of stone to stabilise the area and ensure the safety of ships sailing between the two landmasses.

It is the northernmost coastal town within Essex.

This link between non-tonality and geographic location is not limited to Hausa alone, but is exhibited in other northern dialects of neighbouring languages ; such as the difference within Songhay language ( between the northernmost Koyra Chiini and Koyraboro Senni dialects of Timbuktu and Gao, and the Zarma dialect, spoken from western Niger to northern Ghana ), and within the Soninke language ( between the northernmost dialects of Imraguen and Nemadi spoken in east-central Mauritania, and the southern dialects of Senegal, Mali and the sahel ).

On the map of Ptolemy, the " Kimbroi " are placed on the northernmost part of the peninsula of Jutland., i. e. in the modern landscape of Himmerland south of Limfjorden ( since Vendsyssel-Thy north of the fjord was at that time a group of islands ).

Formerly placed in the paraphyletic " Old World warbler " assemblage, they are now considered the northernmost representatives of a largely Gondwanan family, the Locustellidae.

Their location at the northernmost reaches of the Missouri River placed them near the closest portages to the Hudson Bay basin and thus the fastest access to French and British traders.

Ramiro's first attempt to take Graus, the northernmost Muslim outpost in the valley of the Cinca, took place in 1055, probably in response to the defeat of García Sánchez III of Navarre at Atapuerca the year before ( 1054 ), which placed Ferdinand I of León and Castile in a commanding position against Ramiro's western border and the Muslim Taifa of Zaragoza to his south.

The town of Shuafat was to be the most northernmost point of the corpus separatum proposed in 1947 for Jerusalem and its surrounding villages, which " in view of its association with three world religions " was to be " accorded special and separate treatment from the rest of Palestine and should be placed under effective United Nations control ".

The western platform was placed on the Huaca Concha, the northernmost of the Complex Maranga.

In another study of ancient DNA published by the same authors in 2011, both the control and coding regions of mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) recovered from Jomon skeletons excavated from the northernmost island of Japan, Hokkaido, were analyzed in detail, and 54 mtDNAs were confidently assigned to relevant haplogroups.

The northernmost antipodal island in the Ryukyu Island chain, Nakanoshima, is opposite the Brazilian coast near Capão da Canoa.

It is the northernmost of the Northern Line Islands and lies northwest of the next closest island ( Palmyra Atoll ), and south of Honolulu.

It occurs in prominent outcropping at Goodsell Ridge, Isle La Motte, the northernmost island in Lake Champlain.

** Mali Kyun, the northernmost island of the group

A Shetland " guddick " ( riddle ) in Norn, which Jakob Jakobsen heard told on Unst, the northernmost island in Shetland, in the 1890s.

Parts of China's northernmost province Heilongjiang has a subarctic climate ; its southernmost part, Hainan Island ( an island away from mainland China ), has a tropical climate.

Fukuoka Prefecture | Fukuoka, the northernmost part of the island, has the largest number of # Designated boryokudan | designated syndicates among all of the prefectures.

Only the one on Stromboli, the northernmost island, is still active.

Othonoi ( Οθωνοί ) is the westernmost settlement and island in all Greece ; Ereikoussa is the northernmost of the Ionian Islands.

All islands, including the main island and its peninsula Ootu, are listed starting clockwise from the northernmost point of the atoll:

Mayotte is an island of volcanic origin in the northernmost Mozambique Channel, about one-half of the way from northern Madagascar to northern Mozambique.

Norway is only 300 kilometres ( 159 Nautical miles ) east of Unst, the northernmost island of Shetland.

The northernmost point of Sakhalin is Cape of Elisabeth on Schmidt Peninsula, while Cape Crillon is the southernmost point of the island.

, formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island ; it is also the largest and northernmost of Japan's 47 prefectures.

* Grímsey An island in the far-north, the northernmost part of Iceland.

The northernmost island of Germany, it is known for its tourist resorts, notably Westerland, Kampen and Wenningstedt-Braderup, as well as for its 40 km long sandy beach.

List in the very north of the island constitutes Germany's northernmost municipality, it retained a certain independence due to its remote location and its long-time adherence to the kingdom of Denmark.

The northernmost part of the island, Listland, was traditionally Danish-speaking.

* Ponta Marigou, north, the northernmost point on the island

In the southern part of the island there are Arvanite communities, with the area south of Aliveri being the northernmost limit of their presence in Euboea.

It is the northernmost Greek island, and 12th largest by area.

After Westerland on the island of Sylt it is Germany's northernmost town.