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WEEK 2
UNIT OF MEASUREMENT
RUMP LINE
Great circle sailing
Mercator charts
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JAMS MAY - 2020
Length of a sea mile:
The sea mile is the distance of one minute of arc of latitude at a given (current)
latitude and along the current meridian. Because the Earth is not a true sphere, one
minute of latitude arc on pole differs from one-minute latitude arc near the equator.
This calculator evaluates the length of sea mile at a given latitude.