Sentences with phrase «nautical mile journey»
Drawing on the official records and the journals of the ship's scientists, officers, and crew, Corfield recounts the story of the Challenger's three - and - a-half-year, 69,000 - nautical mile journey.
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Their objective at the time was to test whether a long - distance sea journey could be successfully accomplished using only native skills; a round trip to Tahiti — a distance of over 4,600 nautical miles — was their chosen goal.
The southern part of Glovers is approximately 30 nautical miles from Placencia, a journey which takes a little more than an hour and a half.
Banco Chinchorro lies 36 nautical miles of open ocean from our pier in Xcalak, the oldest town on the Mexican Caribbean coast, making it a challenge to go to Chinchorro on most days, the summer months being the most suitable for the journey.
Many of them are from Antarctic waters and the seas of the Ogasawara Islands, an archipelago of more than 30 subtropical islands, including Iwo Jima, some one thousand kilometers, or about 540 nautical miles, a day's journey by ship, south of Tokyo.