Length of the Oxford-Cambridge boat race

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

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If Length of the Oxford-Cambridge boat race (6.8 km) was a standard unit ...

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

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