Whenever Menzies looked from the northerly window of his office he was reminded of the aesthetic imposition of the King George V monument.
For a minute it reminded me of New Zealand's most northerly point, Cape Reinga, where the Maori believe the spirits of the dead enter the underworld.
But in more moderate scenarios, rising global temperatures improve agricultural productivity in northerly climes.
The next one sets sail in August around Scotland's northerly coasts and islands, as part of a four-year project to explore climate-related changes closer to home.These expeditions have yielded a motley array of works.
The owner-operator of the Valhalla brewery, barely a mile from Britain's most northerly point, in the Shetland Islands, has had enough of both.
The remoteness of this most northerly part of the British mainland was why, in 1955, the government sited an experimental nuclear reactor at Dounreay, a few miles from Thurso.
This came after separate talks between a group of moderate, mostly female, senators from northerly states, suggesting that a willingness to compromise correlates with possession of two X-chromosomes and a pair of snowshoes.
However, the poor showing in the local elections means that the DS will fend off opposition calls for extraordinary nationwide elections until the party has regrouped and consolidated.The DS position is further complicated by discontent within the party ranks in its electoral heartland of Vojvodina, Serbia's richest and most northerly region.
In Antarctic waters, which already have an omega value of one, their shells were weak and badly formed when compared with those of similar species found in warmer, more northerly waters.
Sanskrit became the main vehicle of Mahayana Buddhism's northerly path to China, Japan, Korea and elsewhere.
The population of Iwate, the most northerly of the three prefectures that bore the brunt of the tsunami, has declined by 46,000 or nearly 3% since.After the disaster the central government pledged ¥25 trillion $213 billionn) over five years.
