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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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 " ).
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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.
