[talk-au] SA/Vic border

Delta Foxtrot delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 14 10:40:38 BST 2009


--- On Sun, 14/6/09, Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> 2 miles and 19 chains is the measure in the High Court
> documents; then about 2 1/4 miles 

Considering the inch (and other imperial measurements) weren't standardised until the 1950s (1 inch = 2.54mm) that's a little imprecise  to work out unless they specified the longitude in the court documents too.

As a guesstimate conversion that works out to be about 3.6km which is 140.9640 degrees, but I'm guessing that isn't 100% correct.


      




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