For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

In the Maritime provinces farther east, the tones are a little quieter.

To the east, the boundaries of the ocean proper are Europe ; the Strait of Gibraltar ( where it connects with the Mediterranean Sea – one of its marginal seas – and, in turn, the Black Sea, both of which also touch upon Asia ) and Africa.

The Aegean Islands are found within its waters, with the following islands delimiting the sea on the south ( generally from west to east ): Kythera, Antikythera, Crete, Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes.

The earliest historical records of Anatolia stem from the south east of the region, and are from the Mesopotamian based Akkadian Empire during the reign of Sargon of Akkad in the 24th century BC.

In the Coastal Plain are the Tombigbee River in the west, the Alabama River ( formed by the Coosa and Tallapoosa ) in the western central, and in the east the Chattahoochee River, which forms almost half of the Georgia boundary.

# If isotherms are concave towards the " north-east " direction ( 45 °), then adiabats are concave towards the " east north-east " ( 31 °).

It is unclear what people Snorri thinks the Vanes are, whether the proto-Slavic Venedi or the east Germanic Vandals, who had been in that region at that time for well over 1000 years.

In the east and west extremes of the city the two acropoleis are situated, where a number of tombs have been found, many of which are intact.

The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer are sunk off the island's east coast.

Associated with these great valleys are a number of volcanic peaks, the greatest of which occur on a meridional line east of the eastern trough.

Both in the east and west of the continent the bordering highlands are continued as strips of plateau parallel to the coast, the Ethiopian mountains being continued northwards along the Red Sea coast by a series of ridges reaching in places a height of.

After the American Civil War, the settlement of the western territories by migrants from the east led to dialect mixing and levelling, so that regional dialects are most strongly differentiated in the eastern parts of the country that were settled earlier.

The modern Assyrian Christian minority in northern Iraq, north east Syria, south east Turkey and north west Iran are the descendants of the ancient Assyrians ( see Assyrian continuity ).

Thus far the only people who have been attested with a high level of genetic, historical, linguistic and cultural research to be the descendants of the ancient Mesopotamians are the Assyrian Christians of Iraq and its surrounding areas in north west Iran, north east Syria and south eastern Turkey.

Some also include the western part of Hants County, including the towns of Hantsport and Windsor even further to the east, but geographically speaking they are part of the Avon River valley.

Within the valley itself are two " major " rivers, the Annapolis River which flows west from the Caribou Bog in the central part of the valley into the Annapolis Basin, and the Cornwallis River which flows east from Caribou Bog into the Minas Basin.

Also flowing east, in two smaller valleys north of the Cornwallis River, are the Canard River and the Habitant River, both of which also flow into the Minas Basin.

Rivers originating near Aalen are the Rems ( near Essingen, west of Aalen ) and the Jagst ( near Unterschneidheim, east of Aalen ), both being tributaries of the Neckar, just like the Kocher.

The neighboring municipalities are Küttigen to the north, Rohr and Buchs to the east, Suhr to the south-east, Unterentfelden to the south, and Eppenberg-Wöschnau and Erlinsbach to the west.

Cantons 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 are located along the Gulf of Ajaccio from west to east, while 4 and 5 are a little further up the valleys of the Gravona and the Prunelli Rivers.

* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

* 1842 – The Webster – Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the Canada – United States border east of the Rocky Mountains.

* 1783 – A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.

* 1529 – Treaty of Saragossa divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297. 5 leagues or 17 ° east of the Moluccas.

* 2003 – An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500, 000 people living in south east England and brings 60 % of London's underground rail network to a halt.

For geopolitical purposes, the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt – east of the Suez Canal – is often considered part of Africa.

It lies on Abadan Island ( long, 3 – 19 km or 2 – 12 miles wide, the island is bounded in the west by the Arvand waterway and to the east by the Bahmanshir outlet of the Karun River ), from the Persian Gulf, near the Iraqi-Iran border.

Alexandria is served by the Norfolk & Southern Railway with a connector which allows rail traffic to flow smoothly between lines servicing east – west and north – south destinations.

Disruption in the trade of tin for bronze from Western Europe may have contributed to the increasing popularity of brass in the east and by the 6th – 7th centuries AD over 90 % of copper alloy artefacts from Egypt were made of brass.

Unter den Linden is a tree-lined east – west avenue from the Brandenburg Gate to the site of the former Berliner Stadtschloss, and was once Berlin's premier promenade.

“ A visit to the ground has only confirmed me ,” Lucas wrote in 1921 ; “ and it was interesting to find that Mr. Apostolides, son of the large local landowner, the hospitality of whose farm at Tekés I enjoyed, was convinced too that the site was by Driskole Krini, for the very sound reason that neither the hills nor the river further east suit Caesar ’ s description .” John D. Morgan in his definitive “ Palae-pharsalus – the Battle and the Town ”, arguing for a site closer still to Krini, where he places Palaepharsalos, writes: “ My reconstruction is similar to Lucas ’ s, and in fact I borrow one of his alternatives for the line of the Pompeian retreat.

To the west of the Petite Gheete rises the plateau of Mont St. André ; a second plain, the plateau of Jandrenouille – upon which the Anglo-Dutch army amassed – rises to the east.

A major reason for the all-day congestion was that the Central Artery carried not only north – south traffic, but much east – west traffic as well.

While only one net lane in each direction was added to the north – south I-93, several new east – west lanes were added to untangle the traffic.

* Eastern-most point – unnamed peninsula east of Domoni, Nzwani

The Inner German border — only east of Hamburg — separated the city from most of its hinterland and further reduced Hamburg's global trade.

The country is southeast of the Russian Far East, separated by the Sea of Okhotsk ; slightly east of Korea, separated by the Sea of Japan ; and east-northeast of China and Taiwan, separated by the East China Sea.

It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago.

The Mga River then flowed to the east, into Lake Ladoga, near the modern source of the Neva River ; the Mga then was separated from the basin of the Tosna.

Central Transylvanian Basin is separated from the Plain of Moldavia on the east by the Carpathian Mountains and separated from the Wallachian Plain on the south by the Transylvanian Alps

From west to east, the country stretches from Kaliningrad ( the exclave separated by the 1990 secession of Lithuania from the then-Soviet Union ) to Ratmanov Island ( one of the Diomede Islands ) in the Bering Strait.

The Temne had thus expanded in a wedge toward the sea at Freetown, and now separated the Bulom to the north from the Mani and other Mande speakers to the south and east.

It is separated to the east from the Italian region of Calabria through the Strait of Messina.

east of the Turks Islands and separated from them by Mouchoir Passage is the Mouchoir Bank.

On the east the town is ( currently in part ) separated from Schiedam by the A4 motorway.

The plane's engines subsequently separated in flight and fell several blocks north and east of the main wreckage site.

The Alhambra as a whole is completely walled, bordered to the north by the valley of the Darro, to the south by the al-Sabika, and to the east of the Cuesta del Rey Chico, which in turn is separated from the Albaicín and Generalife, located in the Cerro del Sol.

At the end of the republic, however, or at latest at the beginning of the imperial period, the city of Circei was no longer at the east end of the promontory, but on the east shores of the Lago di Paola ( a lagoon — now a considerable fishery — separated from the sea by a line of sandhills and connected with it by a channel of Roman date: Strabo speaks of it as a small harbor ) north of the west end of the promontory.

According to Ptolemy, these divisions were separated by a line drawn from Arrabona in the north to Servitium in the south ; later, the boundary was placed further east.

Montreux lies on the north east shore of Lake Geneva at the fork in the Roman road from Italy over the Simplon Pass, where the roads to the Roman capital of Aventicum and the road into Gaul through Besançon separated.

Gaithersburg is divided into east and west sections, separated by Interstate 270.

Known as Cape Kennedy from 1963 to 1973, it lies east of Merritt Island, separated from it by the Banana River.

They are separated from the Cottian Alps in the east by the Col du Galibier and the upper Durance valley ; from the western Graian Alps ( Vanoise Massif ) in the north-east by the river Arc ; from the lower ranges Vercors Plateau and Chartreuse Mountains in the west by the rivers Drac and Isère.

Ithaca lies east of the northwest coast of Kephalonia, from which it is separated by the Strait of Ithaca.

; Ringló Vale: The land around the northern course of the river Ringló, separated by outliers of the White Mountains from Lamedon in the west and Lebennin in the east.