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• In January 1909 he and three companions made a southern march which established a record Farthest South latitude at 88?232 S, 97 geographical miles ( 114 statute miles, 190 km ) from the South Pole.
• The Omnibus Territories Act of 2013 would convey to the government of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ( CNMI ) submerged lands surrounding such Islands and extending three geographical miles outward from their coastlines.
• The bill would convey ownership of submerged lands to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ( CNMI ) from the mean high tide seaward to the point that is three geographical miles from its coast line.
• 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 R鴐er of Denmark.
• During the second expedition 1907 1909 he and three companions established a new record Farthest South latitude at 88癝, only 97 geographical miles ( 112 statute miles, 180 km ) from the South Pole, the largest advance to the pole in exploration history.
• Other rewards were on offer for those who presented methods that worked within 80 geographical miles of the coast ( being the most treacherous part of voyages ) and for those with promising ideas who needed help to bring them to readiness for trial.
• A geographical mile is defined to be the length of one minute of arc along the equator ( one equatorial minute of longitude ), so a degree of longitude along the equator is exactly 60 geographical miles, as there are 60 minutes in a degree.
• A geographical mile is defined to be the length of one minute of arc along the equator ( one equatorial minute of longitude ), so a degree of longitude along the equator is exactly 60 geographical miles, as there are 60 minutes in a degree.
• In 1726, the Herrenh鋟ser Allee ( Herrenhausen alley ) was planted just through the gardens, connecting Hanover with the royal palace and gardens of Herrenhausen in the boroughs of the city; it is almost exactly one geographical mile ( 1.85 km ) long, and consists of four rows of lime trees.
• Debate began on the expansion of the Ordinance of 1784 and Thomas Jefferson s survey method  hundreds of ten geographical miles square, each mile containing 6086 and 4-10ths of a foot and  sub-divided into lots of one mile square each, or 850 and 4-10ths of an acre " on April 14.
• In 1862, he published the " " Great Neapolitan Earthquake of 1857 : The First Principles of Observational Seismology " " in two volumes; he brought forward evidence to show that the depth below the Earth's surface, from where the impulse of the Neapolitan earthquake originated, was about 8 & ndash; 9 geographical miles.
• "Since one degree of longitude spans 60 nautical miles ( the equivalent of 68 geographical miles ) over the globe at the Equator, even a fraction of a degree translates into a large distance-- and consequently a great margin of error when trying to determine the whereabouts of a ship vis-a-vis its destination, " the authors explain.
• Article II only referred to the cession by the Sultan and Temenggung of Johor of " the Island of Singapore . . . together with the adjacent seas, straits, and islets to the extent of ten geographical miles " to the British, and could not be read as an acknowledgement by the United Kingdom that Johor sovereignty over any other territory.
• That day, referring to Marshall and Adams, Wild wrote : " if we only had Joyce and Marston here instead of those two grubscoffing useless beggars we would have done it [ the Pole ] easily . " On 4 January 1909 Shackleton finally accepted that the Pole was beyond them, and revised his goal to the symbolic achievement of getting within 100 geographical miles of the Pole.
• The Supreme Court finally decided the issue on 31 May 1960, when it ruled that Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana owned the rights to the offshore lands for a distance of three geographical miles ( ), and Texas and Florida owned rights to tidelands within three marine leagues ( ), from their coastline boundaries ( " United States v . States of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida " ).
• Plato determined the circumference of the Earth ( which is slightly over 40, 000 km ) to be 400, 000 stadia ( between 62, 800 and 74, 000 km or 46, 250 and 39, 250 mi ) while Archimedes estimated 300, 000 stadia ( 48, 300 km or 30, 000 mi ), using the Hellenic stadion which scholars generally take to be 185 meters or of a geographical mile.