Question: Which operation took place farther north, Operation Nordwind or Gothic Line?
Context: The Battle of Rimini took place between 13 and 21 September 1944 during Operation "Olive", the main Allied offensive on the Gothic Line in August and September 1944, part of the Italian Campaign in the Second World War.  Rimini, a town on the Adriatic coast of Italy, anchored the Rimini Line, a German defensive line which was the third such line forming the Gothic Line defences. Gothic Line order of battle is a listing of the significant formations that were involved in Operation "Olive", the Allied offensive on the Gothic Line in northern Italy, August–September 1944, and in the subsequent fighting in the central Apennine mountains and on the plains of eastern Emilia–Romagna up to April 1945. Operation Harpoon was the code name of a joint American–Canadian military operation which took place in March 2002 in Paktia Province, Afghanistan.  This operation took place in roughly the same region as Operation Anaconda.  It was also the first major Canadian combat mission in half a century. The Fortified Sector of Rohrbach ("Secteur Fortifié de Rohrbach") was the French military organization that in 1940 controlled the section of the Maginot Line in the vicinity of Bitche.  The sector was bordered to the west by the Fortified Sector of the Sarre and to the east by the Fortified Sector of the Vosges.  With lower priority than other sectors, the SF Rohrbach was built somewhat later than its neighbors to the east and west, and in company with positions on the extreme western end of the Maginot Line, became one of the "New Fronts."  The sector contains several major "ouvrages" and was the scene of fighting in both 1940 and 1944.  It was attacked in 1940 by German forces in the Battle of France.  The sector was heavily engaged by German forces in mid-June 1940, with several casemates and the "petit ouvrage" Welschhof surrendering before the Second Armistice at Compiègne.  The remaining positions and their garrisons finally surrendered on 27 June 1940.  In 1944 German forces occupied several positions in the SF Rohrbach, forcing advancing American forces to attack them individually or to bypass them.  The German Operation Nordwind offensive of early 1945 caused American forces to fall back, returning to complete the capture of the Rohrbach sector in March 1945.  Following the war many positions were reactivated for use during the Cold War.  Two locations are now preserved and open to the public. A major police operation took place in the summer of 2010 in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland, England, during which armed police officers under the command of the Northumbria Police force were deployed to apprehend Raoul Moat, a 37-year-old man from Newcastle upon Tyne who was on the run after shooting three people in two days.  His victims were ex-girlfriend Samantha Stobbart, her new partner Chris Brown, and police officer David Rathband.  Stobbart was hospitalised and Brown was killed, while Rathband remained in hospital for nearly three weeks and was permanently blinded.  Moat, who had recently been released from Durham Prison, shot the three with a sawn-off shotgun, two days after his release.  After six days on the run, Moat was recognised by police and contained in the open, leading to a standoff.  After nearly six hours of negotiation, Moat shot himself in the early hours of the following morning, and was later pronounced dead at Newcastle General Hospital.  The operation took place across the entire Northumbria Police area, which covers both the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear and the county of Northumberland. Operation Prime Chance (August 1987 – June 1989) was a United States Special Operations Command operation intended to protect U.S.-flagged oil tankers from Iranian attack during the Iran–Iraq War.  The operation took place roughly at the same time as Operation Earnest Will (July 1987 – December 1988), the largely naval effort to escort the tankers through the Persian Gulf.  The operation was begun after the mining of the U.S.-flagged Kuwaiti oil tanker "Bridgeton". Operation North Wind (German: "Unternehmen Nordwind" ) was the last major German offensive of World War II on the Western Front.  It began on 31 December 1944 in Alsace and Lorraine in northeastern France, and ended on 25 January. Operation Anaconda took place in early March 2002.  CIA Paramilitary Officers, working with their allies, attempted to destroy al-Qaeda and Taliban forces.  The operation took place in the Shahi-Kot Valley and Arma Mountains southeast of Zormat.  This operation was the first large-scale battle in the United States War in Afghanistan since the Battle of Tora Bora in December 2001.  This was the first operation in the Afghanistan theater to involve a large number of U.S. conventional (i.e. non-Special Operations Forces) forces participating in direct combat activities. The Gothic Line (German: "Gotenstellung" ; Italian: "Linea Gotica" ) was a German defensive line of the Italian Campaign of World War II.  It formed Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's last major line of defence along the summits of the northern part of the Apennine Mountains during the fighting retreat of the German forces in Italy against the Allied Armies in Italy, commanded by General Sir Harold Alexander. Ouvrage Simserhof is a "gros ouvrage" of the Maginot Line, located near the community of Sierstal in the French "département" of Moselle.  Simserhof is adjoined by "petit ouvrage" Rohrbach and "gros ouvrage" Schiesseck, and faces the German frontier.  Located 4 km to the west of Bitche, the "ouvrage" derived its name from a nearby farm.  It was a part of the Fortified Sector of Rohrbach.  During the Battle of France in 1940, Simserhof supported its neighboring fortifications with covering artillery fire, with partial success.  After the surrender of France, it was occupied by the Germans as a storage depot for torpedoes, and later resisted the American advances of late 1944.  Taken by the Americans, it was briefly re-occupied by the Germans during Operation Nordwind.  Following the war it was repaired for use by the French Army, but was proposed as a museum of the Maginot Line as early as the 1960s.  Retained by the Ministry of Defense, Simserhof now functions as a museum, and has the most extensive visitor infrastructure of any of the preserved Maginot fortifications.
Answer: Operation North Wind