the southern United States, extending from Florida in the east to Texas in the west, still maintains its unique flavor of gracious living and historical elegance.

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.

alt = Map displaying a looping line with arrows indicating that water flows eastward in the far Southern ocean, angling north east of Australia, turning sough after passing Alaska, then crossing the mid-Pacific to flow north of Australia, continuing west below Africa, then turning northwest until reaching eastern Canada, then angling east to southern Europe, then finally turning south just below Greenland and flowing down the Americas ' eastern coast, and resuming its flow eastward to complete the circle

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 Lombards under King Wacho had migrated towards the east into Pannonia, taking advantage of the difficulties facing the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy following the death of its founder, Theodoric in 526.

The Almoravid power was at its height at Yusuf's death, and the Moorish empire then included all North-West Africa as far as Algiers, and all of Iberia south of the Tagus, with the east coast as far as the mouth of the Ebro, and included the Balearic Islands.

At no great distance east of this rift-valley is Mount Kilimanjaro-with its two peaks Kibo and Mawenzi, the latter being, and the culminating point of the whole continent — and Mount Kenya, which is.

Young drove the rover to a point about east of the Lunar Module, known as the ' VIP site ', so its television camera, controlled remotely by mission control, could observe Apollo 16's liftoff from the Moon.

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.

Montrose in the north east of the county is notable for its tidal basin.

The ice then extended from the north down to the northern tip of Gotland, with small ice free areas on its either side, and the east coast of the Baltic Sea was covered by an ice sheet ca.

Boone has the highest elevation of any town of its size ( over 10, 000 population ) east of the Mississippi River.

) expanded its occupied area and linked up with the Serbian army to the northwest, while its main forces turned east towards Kavala, reaching the Bulgarians.

As latitude increases, this increases the impact of the storms, which in its journey from west to east, swept the western coasts of continents, dumping heavy rains as carrying high humidity.

The island has an elongated shape: it spans from east to west, is at its widest point, and narrows to as little as ( close to Ierapetra ).

Crete is extremely mountainous, and its character is defined by a high mountain range crossing from west to east, formed by three different groups of mountains:

Clippers sailed all over the world, primarily on the trade routes between the United Kingdom and its colonies in the east, in trans-Atlantic trade, and the New York-to-San Francisco route round Cape Horn during the California Gold Rush.

Additionally, the Aedicule would be quite close to the city even the west wall of the city had been to its east ; yet Akiba remarks that Jewish law insists that tombs should not be built within 50 cubits of a city.

The remaining western border runs slightly east of due south from its intersection with the arc.

Currently the Ugandans and the MLC still hold a wide section of the north of the country ; Rwandan forces and its front, the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie ( RCD ) control a large section of the east ; and government forces or their allies hold the west and south of the country.

The middle Congo River and its tributaries from the east are the principal domestic waterways in the DRC.

Dominica is the only island in the eastern Caribbean to retain some of its pre-Columbian population — the Carib Indians — about 3, 000 of whom live on the island's east coast.

Its suburbs spread out over some area, beginning at Lee Point in the north and stretching to Berrimah in the east — past Berrimah, the Stuart Highway goes on to Darwin's satellite city, Palmerston, and its suburbs.

The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending longitudinally between Eurasia and Africa to the east, and the Americas to the west.

The Ennedi Plateau and the Ouaddaï highlands in the east complete the image of a gradually sloping basin, which descends towards Lake Chad.

The larger, northern portion of the basin is bounded within Chad by the Tibesti Mountains in the northwest, the Ennedi Plateau in the northeast, the Ouaddaï Highlands in the east along the border with Sudan, the Guéra Massif in central Chad, and the Mandara Mountains along Chad's southwestern border with Cameroon.

Most of the Columbia's drainage basin ( which, at, is about the size of France ) lies roughly between the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Cascade Mountains on the west.

The maps he made of the Columbia River basin east of the Cascade Mountains were of such high quality and detail that they continued to be regarded as authoritative well into the mid-20th century.

: Sahel east to Ethiopia, southwards around Congo basin to S Tanzania and NE Angola.

This pressure gradient pushes relatively cool, low-salinity water from the Atlantic across the basin ; it warms and becomes saltier as it travels east, then sinks in the region of the Levant and circulates westward, to spill over the Strait of Gibraltar.

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.

A generalized cross section of the San Luis basin from east to west.

Flourishing around the Indus River basin, the civilization extended east into the Ghaggar-Hakra River valley and the upper reaches Ganges-Yamuna Doab ; it extended west to the Makran coast of Balochistan, north to northeastern Afghanistan and south to Daimabad in Maharashtra.

The black basses are distributed throughout a large area east of the Rocky Mountains in North America, from the Hudson Bay basin in Canada to northeastern Mexico.

The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 with the United States confirmed as Crow lands a large area centered on the Big Horn Mountains: the area ran from the Big Horn Basin on the west, to the Musselshell River on the north, and east to the Powder River ; it included the Tongue River basin.

Kathmandu became Prithvi Narayan's new capital, from which he and his heirs extended their domain east across the Koshi basin, north to the Tibetan Plateau, south into the plains of northern India, and west across the Karnali / Bheri basin and beyond.

The river's basin extends from the eastern portion of Extremadura to the southern provinces of the Algarve ; the river and its tributaries flow from east to west, then south to the border towns of Vila Real de Santo António ( Portugal ) and Ayamonte ( Spain ), where it flows into the Gulf of Cádiz.

Along with Kansk to the east, it represented the southern limit of Russian expansion in the Yenisei basin during the seventeenth century.

The First Treaty of San Ildefonso settled the problem, with Spain acquiring territories east of the Uruguay river and Portugal acquiring territories in the Amazon basin.

The third basin includes the east branch of the Passumpsic River which runs through the Town of Burke.

This county's watershed connects with both the Kansas River basin on the south via Stranger Creek and has a Missouri River port city to the east.

In his 1849 report to his superiors, he described the Chippewa historical territory in the Pembina River basin as covering an area about 400 miles from north to south and 500 miles from east to west.

Mean annual precipitation ranges from over 55 inches ( 1440 mm ) for watersheds on the west side of the basin to about 26 inches ( 660 mm ) near the lake on the east side of the basin.

European civilization first made its mark in the Lake Tahoe basin with the 1858 discovery of the Comstock Lode, a silver deposit just 15 miles ( 24 km ) to the east in Virginia City, Nevada.