Size of a country

Calling Alaska the most Eastern state is incorrect. At no point would you travel east from the rest of the country to get there. This would be like calling Maine the Western most state because you can travel West and get there. Crossing an ocean and two continents just to return the starting continent would be silly by an stretch of the imagination. I believe Alaska is only considered East because the Prime Meridian which it crosses. That's a rather arbitrarily lame reason to claim something is in a cardinally farthest point.