any object by which you can navigate I.e. a star
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a Nautical Mile is 6000 feet, regardless whether it is at either pole or the equator.
If you are talking about the town of North Pole, Alaska, then it's 15 miles from Fairbanks, Alaska. If you are talking about the geographic North Pole, then it's 1,122 nautical miles (2,078 km) from Point Barrow, Alaska (the northernmost point of land in the USA).
The South Pole is also called the South Terrestrial Pole and Amundsen-Scott Station.
It's called a "pole" of the Earth's axis. "90° North latitude" is the north pole. "90° South latitude" is the south pole.
pole. the middle part of a magnet is the pole. :)
a Nautical Mile is 6000 feet, regardless whether it is at either pole or the equator.
The air mileage from Boston, Massachusetts, to the North Pole is 3,300. That equals 5,310 kilometers or 2,867 nautical miles.
The total distance from Hawaii to North Pole is 4,764 miles. This is equivalent to 7,667 kilometers or 4,140 nautical miles.
A flag pole is also called a flag staff. Flags are flown at half-mast when famous people die, but I have never heard of a flag mast. However, the English Oxford dictionary says that a mast can be a flagpole ( as well as a TV antenna)
It is called the pole vault pit.
Polar navigation is based on nautical navigation techniques: Scott's team used a sextant to guide their trek to the South Pole.
The air distance from Raleigh, North Carolina, to the North Pole, Arctic regions, is 3,754 miles. That equals 6,041 kilometers or 3,262 nautical miles.
If you traveled in a straight line, the distance would be about 9,278.675 nautical miles to the continent, then another 750 miles to the pole.
The distance measured in sea that is called nautical mile & the speed is measured in knots 1 nautical mile =1852 metre
A tenth of a nautical mile is called a "cable." The term "cable" is often used in maritime and aviation contexts, where distances are measured in nautical miles and their subdivisions. One nautical mile is equivalent to 1,852 meters, so a cable is approximately 185.2 meters.
At the South Pole, aurora are called aurora australis.
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