geographical mile

noun

1. a former name for nautical mile

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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

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

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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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