2007-03-26 10:54:49 · 10 answers · asked by ? 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
A Nautical League is 3038 fathoms.
A fathom is 6 feet
6 x 3038 = 18228 feet !!
A mile is 5280 feet
18288 / 5280 = 3.452338344 miles.
A League ( non nautical ) = 3.000006027 mile
2007-03-26 11:04:49 · answer #1 · answered by dabsis10 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A league is a unit of length, used to express distance, long common in Europe and Latin America, although no longer an official unit in any nation. The league expresses the distance a person, or a horse, can walk in 1 hour of time (usually about 3 miles or 5 kilometres).
2007-03-26 12:42:48 · answer #2 · answered by MN A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to my American dictionary, league + exact distance = oxymoron. The definition I have is that the word comes from "lege" which is a Gallic mile and that it is "a measurement varying in different times and countries; in English-speaking countries it is usually about 3 statute miles or three nautical miles."
It is NOT an official, legal measurement!
Just for fun, I looked for translations in French and German:
French: league = lieue and is defined as equal to 4 kilometres (2.485 miles). It also says: "2 lieues = 5 miles" (without saying whether that's statute or nautical miles).
German: League = Seemeile (nautical mile) = knot = 1853 meters. In the English section it says: "die Seemeile = 3 English Miles = 4.8 Kilometers".
Are we confused yet?
2007-03-26 11:32:55 · answer #3 · answered by pingraham@sbcglobal.net 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A league is 7 miles
2007-03-26 10:58:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
League (unit), an obsolete unit of length of an hour's walk: usually equal to three miles.
However, the Roman league was half this length: 1.5 Roman miles (7500 Roman feet or 2.22 km
2007-03-26 12:21:39 · answer #5 · answered by john M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 3 miles.
2007-03-26 10:59:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 LEAGUE = 3 MILES
Tennyson's "CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE" spoke of "HALF A LEAGUE, ONWARD!", - the cavalry troops charged from a DISTANCE of 1.5 MILES away!
Perhaps, that is WHY, - of more than SEVEN HUNDRED, - 724, to be EXACT, - (NOT "SIX HUNDRED", as in the poem), who went OUT, - there were just ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIVE, who made it BACK, again!
2007-03-26 22:46:30 · answer #7 · answered by Spike 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to my dictionary, it's 3 miles
2007-03-26 10:58:59 · answer #8 · answered by CIARAN D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
6 feet
2007-03-26 11:04:12 · answer #9 · answered by mikejohnston170 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
3 miles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_%28unit%29
done.
2007-03-26 10:57:10 · answer #10 · answered by Jerry P 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋