"Easterly direction" means moving or facing towards the east, which is the direction where the sun rises.
Sentences with «easterly direction»
Most of Seal Point's swell is generated from ground swells with an angle from a South South Easterly direction producing the best swell. (sa-venues.com)
Pakistan draws a straight line in a north - easterly direction from NJ 9842 up to the Karakoram pass on its boundary with China. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
We can actually visualize three possible routes across the Sinai peninsula - the northern route proceeding east (via Sirbonis) and then southeast; another following out of Egypt a generally easterly direction through, roughly, the central part of the Sinaitic triangle; and a third route taking the Israelites in a southeasterly march toward the lower point of the peninsula and the traditional location of Mount Sinai. (religion-online.org)