1803 W. Mavor Hist. Acct. Celebrated Voy. XXI. 92 Ril is distant about three days farther, in a south southeasterly direction.

1819 D. B. Warden Acct. U.S. III. 149 When near its outlet, it [sc. the Connecticut river] takes a south-south-easterly direction to Long Island Sound, in the Atlantic Ocean.

1921 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 11 203 The so-called ‘Spittal’..is a submerged reef running out about 200 yards from the south side of Filey Brigg, in a south-south-easterly direction.

1973 K. Paddayya Investig. into Neolithic Culture of Shorapur Doab i. 4 After a sinuous south-southeasterly course of about 150 miles..it [sc. the Bhima river] joins the Krishna at Sangam.

2009 Irish Examiner (Nexis) 15 July Weather conditions were fair, with a south south easterly force four wind.

1784 T. Hutchins Hist. Narr. Louisiana & W.-Florida 53 The bank is low, where the water of the Mississippi, when high, flows back and runs between the bank and high land, which ranges nearly northerly and south south easterly to the Lousa Chitto.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 711 The bank and highland..ranges nearly northerly and south-southeasterly.

1838 Papers on Duties Corps Royal Engineers II. 199 The veering of the wind..is, east-south-east—south-easterly—east-south-easterly—south-easterly—south-south-easterly.

1886 J. A. Logan Great Conspiracy xiii. 307 The Sudley road, running about six miles South-Southeasterly from Sudley Springs Ford to Manassas Junction, is crossed at right angles, about two miles South of the Springs, by the Warrenton Pike.

1922 U.S. Coast Pilot 121 The coast trends about southeast by south in nearly a straight line for 32 miles to False Cape; thence to Cape Canaveral, 9 miles, it trends south-southeasterly.

1996 D. Bird et al. Raptors in Human Landscapes 300 The Yadkin River..flows easterly to Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, then south-southeasterly to just east of Albemarle.