Whats the differents between a mile traveled on the road and a nautical mile, (at Sea )?

Answer 1

Technically, a nautical mile is a minute of arc along a meridian of the earth - so technically, a nautical mile varies depending on where on earth you are.

However, this would make navigation at sea a tricky business, so it has an international standard definition : 1 nautical mile = 1852 metres exactly.

A land mile is an imperial measure, and is equal to 1,609.344 metres.

Answer 2

Also a nautical mile is a straight line where as a mile on a road can have curves

Answer 3

The nautical mile is any great circle distance around the earth divided by 1/60th if a degree, about 1.15 statute miles.

Answer 4

travelling on a road you drive a car or bike but a nautical mile you use a boat or yacht . There is also no traffic lights or parked vehicles. LOL

Answer 5

A nautical mile is 1852 meters which makes it slightly longer than a ordinary mile (on land). Why I have no idea

Answer 6

It is sort of like if you have an orange and you take a pen and mark two distinct points anywhere on the surface of the orange. The shortest distance between those two points will be a straight line which should pass through the interior of the orange to some degree. But, the distance between those two points is slightly greater if you travel on the outside of the orange, on the curved surface of the fruit.

Answer 7

One Nautical mile is about 3.5 miles (just a little bit less). So the difference is 2.5

Answer 8

6080 feet = 1 nautical mile
5280 feet = 1 mile
difference = 800 feet

But there are complications ...

Answer 9

hmm interesting - i wonder if the different lenghts are because on land u are not traveling a straight line because the earth is round but in sea its a stright line down???