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The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards.
noun - A statute mile is a unit of length, most commonly 5,280 feet (1,760 yards, or about 1,609.3 meters). The statute mile is most often called a Mile or Land mile to distinguish it from the Nautical mile (1,852 meters, about 6,076.1 feet).
survey mile (plural survey miles) The mile of 6336 ⁄ 3937 kilometers employed by the United States prior to its adoption of the international mile by treaty in the 1950s.
Alexander Selkirk (1676 – 13 December 1721) was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent four years and four months as a castaway (1704–1709) after being marooned by his captain, initially at his request, on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean.
survey mile (pl. survey miles) ( US ) The mile of 6336/3937 kilometers employed by the United States prior to its adoption of the international mile by treaty in the 1950s. Alternative forms
statute mile (plural statute miles) The mile of 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards, distinguished from the traditional mile of 5,000 feet employed before the 1593 Weights and Measures Act. The US survey mile, distinguished from the international mile adopted by treaty in the 1950s. The land mile in its various forms, distinguished from the nautical mile.
It was an innovative young engineer called William Roy who was tasked with the initial small-scale military survey of Scotland. Starting in 1747, it took eight years to complete what was known as the Great Map at a scale of 1:36 000 (1.75 inches to a mile).
