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Re: Nautical Miles to Lat/Lon Degrees [message #17037 is a reply to message #17032]

Thu, 09 September 1999 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Struan Gray (struan.gray@sljus.lu.se) writes:

> If I remember correctly, one nautical mile is defined as one
> minute of latitude at the equator. My data book (Kaye and Laby
> 14th Ed.) says one n.m. equals 1.852 km.

Duh. I've got to get better reference material. :-(

Thanks,

David

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		Re: Nautical Miles to Lat/Lon Degrees By: thompson on Thu, 09 September 1999 00:00
		Re: Nautical Miles to Lat/Lon Degrees By: jph on Thu, 09 September 1999 00:00
		Re: Nautical Miles to Lat/Lon Degrees By: davidf on Thu, 09 September 1999 00:00
		Re: Nautical Miles to Lat/Lon Degrees By: Liam Gumley on Thu, 09 September 1999 00:00
		Re: Nautical Miles to Lat/Lon Degrees By: Struan Gray on Thu, 09 September 1999 00:00
		Re: Nautical Miles to Lat/Lon Degrees By: davidf on Thu, 09 September 1999 00:00

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