What does due east mean?
East is a direction, a compass point. To the right on a map held the right side up. "due" wrt directions means "straight". So "due east" means "straight (to) the east".
East is a direction, a compass point. To the right on a map held the right side up. "due" wrt directions means "straight". So "due east" means "straight (to) the east".
If by "cutter" you mean "Qatar", then it is a peninsula connected to Saudi Arabia, protruding into the Persian Gulf. It is also quite close to the island country of Bahrain.
But their names are revealed decades later, when Gregory Maguire gives them the names Elphaba Thropp of the West, and Nessarose Thropp of the East. Two witches, in the
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