a. [f. as prec. + -MOST.] Most southerly; furthest south.

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1725.  De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 91. The southernmost point of the isthmus of Malacca.

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1758.  Borlase, Nat. Hist. Cornw., 11. Our latitude … is the southernmost of all England.

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c. 1850.  Rudim. Navig. (Weale), 78. The southernmost vessel … will have the wind veering.

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1882.  De Windt, Equator, 24. Along the south-west coast of Borneo from its southernmost boundary, Cape Datu.

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