Length of the Oxford-Cambridge boat race

Length of the Oxford-Cambridge boat race (6.8 km)

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Length of the Oxford-Cambridge boat race (6.8 km)

  • is 1/1000 of Length of the Nile River (6,850 km)...more
  • is 1/1000 of Length of the Kazakhstan-Russia border (6,850 km)...more
  • is 1/1000 of Diameter of Mars (6,790 km)...more
  • is 1/200 of Road distance from Land's End to John o' Groats (1,350 km)...more
  • is 1/50 of Length of the River Thames (346 km)...more
  • is about as big as Length of the Las Vegas Strip (6.8 km)...more
  • is 10 x Length of the Starship `Discovery` in the Star Trek series of that name (683 m)...more
  • is 20 x Length of the USS Gerald R. Ford supercarrier (337 m)...more
  • is 25 x Length of the Titanic (269 m)...more
  • is 100 x Longest flight of a paper airplane (69.1 m)...more
  • is 200 x Estimated length of Diplodocus hallorum (longest dinosaur) (33.5 m)...more
  • is 250 x Distance between bases of a baseball diamond (27.43 m)...more
  • is 500 x Distance a kangaroo can jump (13.5 m)...more

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