nautical mile

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A ship was in distress, roughly 20 nautical miles off the coast from the city of Galle.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Persian Gulf, less than 100 nautical miles wide in many places, limits large vessels such as aircraft carriers.

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Local topography—including a shipping channel that shrinks to less than 2 nautical miles wide at its narrowest—requires predictable routes in a small area, he said.

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The interior ministry said earlier that the speedboat had entered its territorial waters and was "one nautical mile off Cayo Falcones" on the country's northern coast when it was intercepted.

From BBC

The vessels were intercepted on Feb. 6 about 100 nautical miles northwest of Mumbai and were part of an “international oil-smuggling racket,” the Coast Guard said in an Instagram post.

From The Wall Street Journal