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geographical mile

noun

  1. a former name for nautical mile
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Its length will thus comprise 12 degrees 40 minutes of latitude, or about 760 geographical miles.

The superficial area of the island is estimated at 206 square geographical miles, which will make it about one half larger than the Isle of Wight.

He makes the length of Tanganika three hundred and twenty-nine geographical miles, and its average breadth twenty-eight miles.

Approximately parallel to the Eastern Cordillera, and at about fifty geographical miles distance, there stands another range which I shall call the Central Cordillera.

By geographical mile is here meant, I suppose, the nautical mile of sixty to an equatorial degree, or about 2,025 yards.

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