A nautical chart is a graphic representation of a sea area and adjacent coastal regions. Depending on the scale of the chart, it may show depths of water and heights of land (topographic map), natural features of the seabed, details of the coastline, navigational hazards, locations of natural and human-made aids to navigation, information on tides and currents, local details of …

これに対して、"U.S. statute mile" は、測量マイルのみを指す 。 国際海里 (International nautical mile) 正確に 1852 メートルと定義されている。航空や航海において使用される。元々は地理マイル（geographical mile:約 1853 メートル）に由来するものである。

Originally the span of a man's outstretched arms, the size of a fathom has varied slightly depending on whether it was defined as a thousandth of an (Admiralty) nautical mile or as a multiple of the imperial yard. Formerly, the term was used for any of several units of length varying around 5– 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet (1.5–1.7 m).

The knot (/ n ɒ t /) is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, exactly 1.852 km/h (approximately 1.151 mph or 0.514 m/s). The ISO standard symbol for the knot is kn. The same symbol is preferred by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (), while kt is also common, especially in aviation, where it is the form recommended by the International Civil …

A minute of arc, arcminute (arcmin), arc minute, or minute arc, denoted by the symbol ′, is a unit of angular measurement equal to 1 / 60 of one degree. Since one degree is 1 / 360 of a turn (or complete rotation), one minute of arc is 1 / 21 600 of a turn. The nautical mile (nmi) was originally defined as the arc length of a minute of latitude on a spherical Earth, so the actual Earth ...

El SI da preferencia a M, pero también se usan mn, nmi, NM y nm (del inglés: nautical mile). [2] No debe confundirse con la milla terrestre, estatutaria o inglesa, que todavía se emplea en algunos países anglosajones y equivale a 1609,344 m. [3 Uso. La milla náutica y el nudo son prácticamente las únicas medidas de distancia y velocidad ...

English units are the units of measurement used in England up to 1826 (when they were replaced by Imperial units), which evolved as a combination of the Anglo-Saxon and Roman systems of units. Various standards have applied to English units at different times, in different places, and for different applications. Use of the term "English units" can be ambiguous, as, in …

An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind. It stretches from the outer limit of the territorial sea (12 nautical miles from the baseline) out to …

Howland Island (/ ˈ h aʊ l ə n d /) is an uninhabited coral island located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, about 1,700 nautical miles (3,100 km) southwest of Honolulu.The island lies almost halfway between Hawaii and Australia and is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States. Together with Baker Island it forms part of the Phoenix Islands.

The square yard (Northern India: gaj, Pakistan: gaz) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit of area.It is in widespread use in most of the English-speaking world, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Pakistan and India.It is defined as the area of a square with sides of one yard (three feet, thirty-six inches, 0.9144 metres) in length

The Bering Strait (Russian: Берингов пролив) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.The present Russia-United States maritime boundary is at 168° 58' 37" W longitude, slightly south of the Arctic Circle at about 65° 40' N latitude.The Strait is named after Vitus …

Eventually, the Army Corps of Engineers succeeded in towing the ship three-quarters of a mile out to sea, where she was scuttled as an artificial reef. 26°47′17″N 80°00′58″W  /  26.78806°N 80.01611°W  / 26.78806; -80.01611  ( Amaryllis (shipwreck

Radar (originally acronym for radio detection and ranging) is a detection system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (), angle, and radial velocity of objects relative to the site. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain.A radar system consists of a transmitter producing electromagnetic waves in the ...

The IEEE symbol for the cubic foot per second is ft 3 /s. The following other abbreviations are also sometimes used: ft 3 /sec; cu ft/s; cfs or CFS; cusec; second-feet; The flow or discharge of rivers, i.e., the volume of water passing a location per unit of time, is commonly expressed in units of cubic feet per second or cubic metres per second.. Cusec is a unit of flow rate, used mostly …