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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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We are about 300 kilometers, 185 miles, away from the Arctic Circle Region or Lapland as it is called here in Finland.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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The planet was 285 million kilometers (177 million miles) from the spacecraft when the images were taken last week, nearly twice the distance between Earth and the Sun.
Nereid is only about 340 kilometers (210 miles) in diameter and is so far from Neptune that it requires 360 days to make one orbit -- only five days less than Earth takes to travel once around the Sun.
Most maps have scales that relate actual distances in miles or kilometers to distances in inches or centimeters on the paper.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Only 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Rome, these hillside villages and their splendid lakes punctuate endless fields of olives and grapes.
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Abu Kashir,
Gas Station Attendant
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It is located 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Madras, the capital of Tamil Nadu state and a major city in the southern India.
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Jake Farley,
Truck Driver
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The kilometers (miles) or months at the top of the log are there to remind you that you need to maintain your vehicle either after a designated number of kilometres (miles) or months, whichever comes first.
Miles are used in preference to kilometers because other distances on highway signs (as on roads or the National Cycle Network, for example) are also in miles.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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Summary distances are in kilometers and miles, while on-road distances are in kilometers, used on all maps and road signs in Europe.
The course was marked in kilometers, so we were converting to miles as we ate slices of apples grown in nearby trees and drank ERG every five kilometers.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Give the actual distances in miles or kilometers and have older students calculate the differences in distances between planets and between the planets and the Sun.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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Changing the units of measure from the default units of kilometers to statute or nautical miles effects not only the range but also the units of measure used in the display of the distance to each station.
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