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Drake · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:28 pm Post subject: Nautical Miles

Is a Nautical mile 5280 feet? If no how many feet is it?

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robul · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 2677

6076 feet

Conversions to other units

Visual comparison of a nautical mile, statute mile, and kilometerOne nautical mile converts to:

1,852 metres (exact)
1.150779 mile (statute) [1] (exact: 57,875/50,292 miles)
2,025.372 yards (exact: 2,315,000/1,143 yards)
6,076.1155 feet (exact: 2,315,000/381 feet)
1,012.6859 fathoms (exact: 1,157,500/1,143 fathoms)
10 common-definition cables (exact, as one common definition of "cable")
10.126859 "ordinary" (100-fathom) cables (exact: 11,575/1,143 ordinary cables)
12.152231 US Navy (120-fathom) cables (exact: 9,260/762 US Navy cables)
0.998383 equatorial arc minutes = traditional geographical miles (approx.)
0.9998834 mean meridian arc minutes = mean historical nautical miles (approx.)

cephus · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:40 pm Post subject: nautical mile

A nautical mile is 6075 feet.
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ike · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:40 pm Post subject:

Drake, youre thinking of farming stuff. 5280 ft = 1 statute mile or 80 chains.

flyindrdre · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:02 pm Post subject:

Statue miles Vs Nautical --

For a less precise answer "Chapmans Piloting and Small Boat Handling" suggests:

statute miles x .87 = nautical miles

nautical miles x 1.15 = statute miles
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mrbacklash · Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 7:18 am Post subject:

A nautical mile is 2000 yards for navigation purposes or 1' of latitude