# outer most points

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outer-most-points/168109>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 11, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outer-most-points/168109 "2003-04-11T20:10:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![robert\_crowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c89c15/32.png) [@robert\_crowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_crowe)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outer-most-points/168109/1 "2003-04-11T20:10:12Z")

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i’m looking for any websites that have the info about the outer most points of the usa. n-e-s-w. thank you

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**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outer-most-points/168109/2 "2003-04-11T20:58:56Z")

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I would think if you googled Northernmost Point U.S. Southernmost, etc. you’d get what you’re looking for.

In the north, I believe it’s Barrow  
In the south, I believe it’s one of the keys.

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**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outer-most-points/168109/3 "2003-04-11T21:04:46Z")

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Are the Keys really further south than Hawaii?

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outer-most-points/168109/4 "2003-04-11T21:11:11Z")

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Are you looking for information _about_ the actual places, or just to have them named?

[Which U.S. states are the farthest north, south, east, and west?](http://geography.miningco.com/library/faq/blqznewsstates.htm)

[US States: Extremes and Records](http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/extremes.shtml)

[Easternmost Point, Maine](http://www.bjbsoftware.com/corners/pointdetail.php3?point=251)

[Southernmost Point, Hawaii](http://www.richard-seaman.com/USA/Places/Hawaii/TheBigIsland/KaLae/)

[Northernmost and Westernmost Points, Alaska](http://www.alaska.com/akcom/western/real_ak/story/1754161p-739520c.html)

(With some arguing that the point where the International Dateline crosses the Aleutians (Amchitka Pass, a channel between the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean) is both the extreme Eastern and Western point, making Semisopochnoi Island the Easternmost and Amatignak Island the Westernmost.)