A unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters.
1The ship averages something in the low 20's of our land miles- per-hour.
2Twenty-five knots-twenty-eight land miles an hour-was the speed of the Plymouth at that moment.
3Peto are both named for a big, fast mackerel with a cruising speed of 30 land miles per hour.
4Making allowance for the longitudes and difference in time, this was an average daily run of 378 sea miles or 435 land miles.
Translations for land mile