geographical mile
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geographical miles
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Kladen informs us that the sedimentary matter transported to the sea by the Rhine would amount to a cubic geographical mile in five thousand years.
From The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
Assuming every thousand fathoms roughly to represent a geographical mile, the area would be of nine square miles.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Between 82° and 81° we came into our old marks of the second depot journey; on that trip we had marked this distance with splinters of packing-case at every geographical mile.
From The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2 by Arthur G. Chater
Mr. Kendall and I were employed in measuring a geographical mile on the small lake, preparatory to a series of observations on the velocity of sound.
From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin
Indeed, in nautical parlance, the words knot and mile are synonyms, alluding to the geographical mile of 60′ to a degree of latitude.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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