SOUTHERNMOST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does southernmost mean? 

• SOUTHERNMOST (adjective)
  The adjective SOUTHERNMOST has 1 sense:

1. situated farthest south

  Familiarity information: SOUTHERNMOST used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTHERNMOST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Situated farthest south

Synonyms:

southernmost; southmost

Context example:

Key West is the southernmost city in the continental United States

Similar:

south (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south)

 Context examples 

The southernmost state of Mexico, bordering on the Pacific Ocean.

(Chiapas, NCI Thesaurus)

Larsen C, a floating platform of glacial ice on the east side of the Antarctic Peninsula, is the fourth largest ice shelf ringing Earth’s southernmost continent.

(Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica, NASA)

Located just south of Mars' equator, Arsia Mons is the southernmost member of a trio of broad, gently sloping shield volcanoes collectively known as Tharsis Montes.

(Mars Volcano, Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time, NASA)

The sky was grey in several cities west and south of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state.

(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)

The Ghost has attained the southernmost point of the arc she is describing across the Pacific, and is already beginning to edge away to the west and north toward some lone island, it is rumoured, where she will fill her water-casks before proceeding to the season’s hunt along the coast of Japan.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)