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* Legua nautica ( nautical league ): Between 1400 and 1600 the Spanish nautical league was equal to four Roman miles of 4 842 feet, making it 19 368 feet ( 5 903 meters or 3. 1876 modern nautical miles ).
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Legua and nautical
* Legua geographica ( geographical league ): Starting around 1630 the Spanish geographical league was used as the official nautical measurement and continued so through the 1840s.
* Legua maritima ( maritime league ): From around 1840 through the early 20th century, a Spanish marine league equaled 18 263. 52 feet ( 5566. 72 meters or 3. 005 79 modern nautical miles ), i. e. about 35 feet ( 10 meters ) longer than our modern maritime league.
Legua and league
* Legua de por grado ( league of the degree ): From the 15th century through the early 17th century, the Spanish league of the degree was based on four Arabic miles.
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* Callao ( Bellavista, Callao District, Carmen de la Legua Reynoso, La Perla, La Punta, Ventanilla District ): 12 %
Legua and was
In September, Juana López, coordinator of the Vaso de Leche program in the Carmen de la Legua Reynoso district of Callao, was murdered after she had denounced the presence and activity of Sendero in the neighborhood.
Legua and 3
* 3 Carmen de la Legua Reynoso
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File: Monumento Legua Cero Primera circunnavegacion mundial-Sanlucar de Barrameda. jpg | Monument " Legua Cero-Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz, España ".
* West: San Miguel District ; and the Callao Region districts of Bellavista, Callao and Carmen de la Legua Reynoso.
The Rímac River marks its natural border with downtown Lima and Callao province's district of Carmen de la Legua Reynoso on the south ; while the Chillón River, on the north, marks San Martín de Porres ' border with Ventanilla, also in Callao, and Puente Piedra.
nautical and league
They were searching 80 to 85 leagues both east of the Patagonian coast and north of the Falklands ( from 1630 – 1840 a Spanish league measured three nautical miles ) and these may be considered sure signs of the proximity of land.
At sea, a league was three nautical miles ( about 5. 6 km ).
That seems pretty straight forward until one realizes that the accepted number of Spanish nautical leagues to a degree varied between 14 1 / 6 to 16 2 / 3 so in actual practice the length of a Spanish nautical league was 25 733 feet ( 7 843 meters or 4. 235 modern nautical miles ) to 21 874 feet ( 6 667 meters or 3. 600 modern nautical miles ) respectively.
Although most contemporary accounts used an Arabic mile of 6 444 feet ( 1 964 meters ), which gave a Spanish league of the degree of 25 776 feet ( 7 857 meters or 4. 242 modern nautical miles ) others defined an Arabic mile as just 6 000 feet making a Spanish league of the degree 24 000 feet ( or 7315 meters, almost exactly 3. 950 modern nautical miles ).
From 1630 to 1718 a millia was 5 564 feet ( 1696 meters ), making a geographical league of four millias to be 22 256 feet ( 6784 m or 3. 663 modern nautical miles ).
But from 1718 through the 1830s the millia was defined as the equivalent of just over 5 210 feet, giving a shorter geographical league of just over 20 842 feet ( 6353 m or 3. 430 modern nautical miles ).
However, it was not him, but the Italian Ferdinand Galiami who calculated the range of the most advanced cannon at the time to three nautical miles or a league.
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The United States nautical mile was defined as 1853. 248 metres ( 6080. 20 U. S. feet, based on the definition of the foot in the Mendenhall Order of 1893 ): it was abandoned in favour of the international nautical mile in 1954.
The Imperial ( UK ) nautical mile, also known as the Admiralty mile, was defined in terms of the knot such that one nautical mile was exactly 6080 international feet ( 1853. 184 m ): it was abandoned in 1970 and, for legal purposes, old references to the obsolete unit are now converted to 1853 metres exactly.
* Bulwark or Bulward ( in nautical use ): The extension of the ship's side above the level of the weather deck.
* Leeward ( in nautical use ): In the direction that the wind is blowing towards.
The total length of the journey was to be 2, 000 nautical miles ( 3, 700 km ): he planned to arrive at Exmouth in Devon, southwest England, in 35 days, but arduous weather conditions slowed his progress, often driving him back, and damaging his communications equipment.
nautical and Between
Between 1946 and 1950, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Ecuador extended their rights to a distance of 200 nautical miles to cover their Humboldt Current fishing grounds.
Between 1944 and 1948 he undertook nautical studies in Cádiz, and he wrote his first poems.
nautical and 1400
A tropical depression formed near the Philippines on July 4 at 0600 UTC ( 1400 PHT ) about 35 nautical miles ( 65 km ) northeast of Catarman on Samar Island.
nautical and 1600
The missile, capable of delivering a 3, 500 lb ( 1600 kg ) payload about 6, 000 nautical miles ( 11, 000 km ) to an accuracy of 1 nautical mile ( 2 km ), was not only very accurate, but was also far more tactically useful to the Soviet Union.
nautical and Spanish
During the Wilkes Expedition, American explorer Charles Wilkes renamed the island Rodgers Island ; the Spanish name remained on British nautical charts and over time became the island's official name.
Sucia in Spanish means " dirty " or in a nautical sense " foul ".
His nephew Juan Vespucci inherited his famous uncle's maps, charts, and nautical instruments, and was appointed to Amerigo's former position as official Spanish government pilot at Seville.
On March 9, an offshore patrol aircraft detected the Spanish stern trawler Estai in international waters outside Canada's 200 nautical mile ( 370 km ) EEZ.
nautical and was
During a 1935 – 1942 colonization attempt, the island was most likely on Hawaii time, which was then 10. 5 hours behind UTC .< ref > Since it is uninhabited the island's time zone is unspecified, but it lies within a nautical time zone 12 hours behind UTC.
He found that material was scattered over an area in diameter, and in addition to military and nautical equipment recovered a large number of gold and silver coins from countries across the Mediterranean, some from the seventeenth century.
With help from Plancius Peter, a Flemish minister who was engaged in producing maps, globes and nautical instruments, they sought for a northeastern or northwestern access to Asia to circumvent the VOC monopoly.
The baseline length, that is, the Master-Slave distance, was typically 60 ~ 120 nautical miles.
It was closely related to the nautical mile, which was originally determined as 1 minute of arc along a great circle of the Earth, but is nowadays defined as exactly 1852 metres.
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) notes that: " The international nautical mile of 1 852 meters ( 6 076. 115 49 ... feet ) was adopted effective July 1, 1954, for use in the United States.
The value formerly used in the United States was 6 080. 20 feet = 1 nautical ( geographical or sea ) mile.
His maternal grandfather was General Peter Gansevoort, a hero of the Battle of Saratoga ; in his gold-laced uniform, the general sat for a portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart, which is described in Melville's 1852 novel, Pierre, for Melville wrote out of his familial as well as his nautical background.
The international nautical mile was defined by the First International Extraordinary Hydrographic Conference, Monaco ( 1929 ) as exactly 1852 metres.
The international nautical mile was chosen as the integer number of metres closest to the mean sea mile.
The nautical mile was historically defined as a minute of arc along a meridian of the Earth ( north-south ), making a meridian exactly 180 × 60 = historical nautical miles.
His theory was first applied by medieval Arabic geographers who extended the Roman mile to 1. 04 nautical miles.
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