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of Unst, is the most northerly point of Shetland, and the site of a lighthouse.
The most northerly point reached by Sturt on this occasion was about S.
with a view to reach the Gulf of Carpentaria by a northerly course midway between Sturt's track to the west and Leichhardt's to the east.
His primary object was to prove that the world was built after the same shape and fashion as the Ark made by the Children of Israel in the desert; but he was able to show that the Malay Peninsula had to be rounded and thereafter a course steered in a northerly direction if China was to be reached.
GRONINGEN the most northerly province of Holland, bounded S.