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  2. Longitude - Wikipedia

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    A geographical mile is defined to be the length of one minute of arc along the equator (one equatorial minute of longitude) therefore a degree of longitude along the equator is exactly 60 geographical miles or 111.3 kilometers, as there are 60 minutes in a degree. The length of 1 minute of longitude along the equator is 1 geographical mile or 1 ...

  3. Geographical mile - Wikipedia

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    The value formerly used in the United States was 6,080.20 feet = 1 nautical (geographical or sea) mile." [6] [7] This deprecated value of 6,080.2 feet is equivalent to 1,853.24 m. A separate reference identifies the geographic mile as being identical to the international nautical mile of 1,852 m and slightly shorter than the British nautical ...

  4. Mile - Wikipedia

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    The old English mile has also been defined as 79,200 or 79,320 inches (1.25 or 1.2519 statute miles). [19] The English long continued the Roman computations of the mile as 5,000 feet, 1,000 paces, or 8 longer divisions, which they equated with their "furrow's length" or furlong. [20]

  5. Earth's circumference - Wikipedia

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    As one degree is ⁠ 1 / 360 ⁠ of a circle, one minute of arc is ⁠ 1 / 21600 ⁠ of a circle – such that the polar circumference of the Earth would be exactly 21,600 miles. Gunter used Snellius's circumference to define a nautical mile as 6,080 feet, the length of one minute of arc at 48 degrees latitude. [24]

  6. Cable length - Wikipedia

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    A cable's length (often "cable length" or just "cable") is simply the standard length in which cables came, which by 1555 had settled to around 100 fathoms (600 ft; 180 m) or 1 ⁄ 10 nautical mile (0.19 km; 0.12 mi). [1] Traditionally rope is made on long ropewalks, the length of which determines the maximum length of rope it is possible to make.

  7. Hurricane Milton intensifies into Category 5 storm, takes aim ...

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    As of 4 p.m. CDT (2100 GMT), the storm was about 80 miles (125 km) west-northwest of Progreso and 675 miles (1,085 km) southwest of Tampa, moving east at 10 mph (17 kph), the hurricane center said.

  8. Nautical mile - Wikipedia

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    A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters. [2] [3] [4] Historically, it was defined as the meridian arc length corresponding to one minute (⁠ 1 / 60 ⁠ of a degree) of latitude at the equator, so that Earth's polar circumference is very near to 21,600 nautical miles (that is 60 minutes × 360 degrees).

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