Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Legua nautica (nautical league): Between 1400 and 1600 the Spanish nautical league was equal to four Roman miles of 4,842 feet, making it 19,368 feet (5,903 metres or 3.1876 modern nautical miles). However, the accepted number of Spanish nautical leagues to a degree varied between 14 1/6 to 16 2/3, so in actual practice the length of a Spanish ...
The British Admiralty defined a fathom to be a thousandth of an imperial nautical mile (which was 6080 ft) or 6.08 feet (1.85 m). In practice the "warship fathom" of exactly 6 feet (1.8 m) was used in Britain and the United States. [11]
An island 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) long, lying just west of Lemaire Island in Gerlache Strait. Probably first seen by the BelgAE (1897-99) under Adrien de Gerlache. Named by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1948-49) after the Lautaro , one of the Chilean expedition ships working in the area that season.
The light, displayed at a focal height of 30 feet (9.1 m), is a flash every two seconds, white, red or green, depending on the direction (Fl.W.R.G. 2s), visible for 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi). Green is shown on 345°−016°30′, red is shown on 016°30′−048°30′, 055°−132° and 141°−188° while white is displayed on 048°30 ...
An island, 0.8 nautical miles (1.5 km; 0.92 mi) long, lying just northeast of Hovgaard Island. Charted as a peninsula of Hovgaard Island by the FrAE, 1903–05, under Charcot, who named its northeast point for Paul Pléneau, photographer of the expedition. The feature was first shown to be an island on an Argentine government chart of 1957. [8]
long code "foot" outputs foot (and never feet) Use of ′ and ″ symbols violates MOSNUM so is not provided. 1.0 ft (0.30 m) ftin (feet and inches) ft m (foot m) inch: in in Use of ′ and ″ symbols violates MOSNUM so is not provided. 1.0 in (25 mm) in cm; in mm; Other: nautical mile: nmi nmi the international standard nautical mile
The rod, perch, or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool [1] and unit of length of various historical definitions. In British imperial and US customary units, it is defined as 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet, equal to exactly 1 ⁄ 320 of a mile, or 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 yards (a quarter of a surveyor's chain), and is exactly 5.0292 meters.
An island approximately 1.1 nautical miles (2.0 km; 1.3 mi) long and 0.85 nautical miles (1.57 km; 0.98 mi) wide with Cape Renard at its northern end and separated from False Cape Renard by a channel that appeared following the loss of ice prior to 2001. Named by UK-APC (2008) in association with Cape Renard.