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Re: Name for sixty nautical miles
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2016 Mar 17, 20:41 -0400
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2016 Mar 17, 20:41 -0400
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Philip Lange <NoReply_PhilipLange@fer3.com> wrote:
If memory serves, a Cable is 100 Fathoms and a League is 10 Cables or 1000 Fathoms.= 1 nautical mile
Different countries have had different definitions of a league, and a land league is often shorter than a sea league, but it always has been considered to be several miles.
In the UK and the US, a sea league has generally been equated with three nautical miles.
Don Seltzer
