Mar. 19th, 2012

tealin: (terranova)
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY, the Polar Party made camp eleven miles from One Ton Depot.

... Except that Scott the Navy man recorded things in nautical, or geographical, miles; in the statute miles Americans are left using for distance, it's actually 12.7 miles, or 20.4 km to the rest of the civilised world.

To give you some idea of the distance, 11 geographical miles is about the distance between:

Burbank and Pasadena
San Francisco and its airport
Vancouver and Steveston
Toronto and Pearson Int'l Airport
The length of Manhattan
London and Hounslow, or Barnet, or Dagenham

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