Meanings of geographical mile in English

Assuming every thousand fathoms roughly to represent a geographical mile, the area would be of nine square miles.

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.

The Mississippi-a river "undercharged with sediment"-witha mean discharge of about ten times that of the Rhine, deposits a cubic geographical mile in thirty-three years.]

On the surface of the earth, at the equator, each side of this polygon would be one-sixtieth of a geographical mile, or 101.46 feet.

This man returned on the seventh day, having travelled 240 geographical miles.

It is oblong in shape and of small extent-about270 square geographical miles.

This point was now about 120 geographical miles to the north of us.

We followed this until it lost itself, thirty geographical miles within the Barrier.

The length of this line was measured as five and a half geographical miles.

In its greatest length it is about sixty, in its greatest breadth about twenty-four, geographical miles.

The miles mentioned in the preceding paragraph are geographical miles, of 60 to a degree of latitude.

Its greatest length is two hundred and twenty geographical miles; its greatest width one hundred and forty.

My opportunities of observation consisted of a ride of ninety geographical miles to Bathurst, in a W.N.W.

The distance to the Barrier edge on the north was, at a guess, about twenty geographical miles.

Sixty geographical miles in two days and a night is good going-aboutas good as can be.

S. latitude, and 20 geographical miles inland, including ''the islands belonging thereto by the law of nations.''