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They were 97.5 geographical miles from the South Pole.
It developed from the sea mile and the related geographical mile.
He had been forced to turn for home at 88 23' S, less than 100 geographical miles (112 statute miles, 180 km) from his objective.
The party covered 152 geographical miles over 10 sledging days, a progress of just over 15 miles daily.
The geographical mile is a unit of length determined by 1 minute of arc along the Earth's equator.
He knew that he was in latitude two degrees forty minutes below the equator, or at a distance of one hundred and sixty geographical miles.
The Act of 2006 also set aside an area three geographical miles offshore as the Rocks and Islands Wilderness.
The term "geographical mile" has also been used to refer to the mean sea mile, which would later become the international nautical mile.
The Dutch and German leagues contain about four geographical miles, or about 4.6 English statute miles.
In Norway and Sweden, this 4 minute geographical mile was mainly used at sea (sjømil), up to the beginning of the 20th century.
On 4 January 1909 Shackleton finally admitted defeat, and revised his goal to the symbolic achievement of getting within 100 geographical miles of the Pole.
The central platform, formed of comparatively recent streams of lava, is of an oval shape, thirteen geographical miles across, in the line of its shorter axis.
(Vogelsang used the unit of geographical miles in lieu of ordinary miles, effectively obscuring the true amount of land to be leased.)
One geographical mile, defined as one minute of arc on the equator, equals 1,855.32571922 m. One nautical mile is one minute of astronomical latitude.
This island, lying near to the eastern coast of Africa, is in the sixth degree of south latitude, that is to say, four hundred and thirty geographical miles below the equator.
"We left Zanzibar at nine o'clock in the morning," said the doctor, consulting his notes, "and, after two days' passage, we have, including our deviations, travelled nearly five hundred geographical miles.
His estimated distance between the cities was 5000 stadia (about 500 geographical miles or 800 km) by estimating the time that he had taken to travel from Syene to Alexandria by camel.
First, to the government of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, it would convey submerged lands surrounding such Islands and extending three geographical miles outward from their coastlines.
His expedition was highly successful, its southern march ending at 88 23', less than 100 geographical miles from the South Pole, while its northern party reached the location of the South Magnetic Pole.
His knowledge of the size of Egypt after many generations of surveying trips for the Pharaonic bookkeepers gave a distance between the cities of 5,000 stadia (about 500 geographical miles or 927.7 km).
In ancient times, the ambassadors of Nero reached the ninth degree of latitude, but in eighteen centuries only from five to six degrees, or from three hundred to three hundred and sixty geographical miles, were gained.
The geographical mile is the length of one minute of longitude along the Equator, about 1,855.4 m on the International (1924) Spheroid or about 1,855.325 m on the WGS 84 ellipsoid.
While debating what became the Land Ordinance of 1785, Thomas Jefferson's committee wanted to divide the public lands in the west into "hundreds of ten geographical miles square, each mile containing 6086 and 4-10ths of a foot".
In January 1909 he and three companions made a southern march which established a record Farthest South latitude at 88 23' S, 97 geographical miles (112 statute miles, 180 km) from the South Pole, by far the closest convergence in exploration history up to that time.
The Danish and German geographical mile (geografisk mil and geographische Meile or geographische Landmeile, respectively) is 4 minutes of arc, and was defined as approximately 7421.5 metres by the astronomer Ole Rømer of Denmark.