Definition of "due east" []

• The cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "So, although the sea is twenty-five miles due east at Walberswick, I can still enjoy some of the pleasures of living beside it: the big skies and wide, dramatic sunsets."
• "Next, to the southward, was the Williamsburg Road, which followed a course almost due east from Richmond to Seven Pines and thence to the Chickahominy at Bottom's Bridge."
• "They could easily have sent huge forces of men to check out every waterfall in the Zagros Mountains due east of Baghdad, Hilla,and Qurna by now."