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Country Easternmost point Longitude 1 Russia: Big Diomede Island, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Cape Dezhnev (mainland) 169°01′W 169°40′W 2 New Zealand: Forty-Fours East Cape (North Island) 175°45′W 178°54′E 3 Fiji: Vatoa island: 178°15′W 4 Tuvalu: Nukulaelae island: 179°51′E 5 Marshall Islands: Knox Atoll: 172°09′E 6 France ...
9th Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana – lowest surface point in eastern United States, at −7 feet (− New Orleans , Louisiana , 29°58′N 90°03′W / 29.967°N 90.050°W / 29.967; -90.050 ( New Orleans, Louisiana ) – lowest city over 250,000 population in all U.S. territory and Western Hemisphere, with an average elevation ...
List of countries by southernmost point; List of countries by easternmost point; List of countries by westernmost point; Northernmost settlements; Southernmost settlements; List of northernmost items; List of southernmost items; List of countries by highest point; List of countries by lowest point; List of elevation extremes by country
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States — lowest city of the Americas with an average elevation of −0.5 m (−1 Isthmus of Rivas , Rivas , Nicaragua 12°1′N 86°27′W / 12.017°N 86.450°W / 12.017; -86.450 ( Isthmus of Rivas ) — lowest pass between Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean (on the Continental Divide of the ...
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States — lowest city of the Americas with an average elevation of −0.5 m (−1 Isthmus of Rivas , Rivas , Nicaragua 12°1′N 86°27′W / 12.017°N 86.450°W / 12.017; -86.450 ( Isthmus of Rivas ) — lowest pass between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean (on the Continental Divide of the ...
Mainland Eurasia is entirely located within the northern hemisphere and mostly within the eastern hemisphere, yet it touches the western hemisphere on both extremes. Thus, both the easternmost and westernmost points of Eurasia are in the western hemisphere. Mainland Eurasia crosses 200° of longitude and 76° of latitude north to south.
Point Udall is at the east end of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands.It is the easternmost point (by travel, not longitude) of the United States including insular areas.It was named in 1969 for Stewart Udall, United States Secretary of the Interior under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
The easternmost and westernmost points on Earth, based on the east–west standard for describing longitude, can be found anywhere along the 180th meridian, which passes through the Arctic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans, as well as parts of Siberia (including Wrangel Island), Antarctica, and three islands of Fiji (Vanua Levu's eastern peninsula, the middle of Taveuni, and the western part of ...