Word Origin & History. amber mid-14c., ambergris, from O.Fr. ambre, from M.L. ambar, from Arabic 'anbar amber, a word brought home to Europe by the Crusaders. The sense was extended to fossil resin c.1400, which has become the main sense as the use of ambergris has waned. This formerly was known as white or yellow amber. In Fr., they are distinguished as ambre gris and amber jaune. Cf. also electric.
It depends on how closely he needs to describe the location. One degree of latitude is one nautical mile or about 6000 feet, so one second is about 100 feet. The fractions of a second are pretty useless, but degrees, minutes, and seconds are reasonable.
Mile and foot (for both imperial and nautical) conversion factors are listed below. To find out how many feet in miles or vice versa, please either use these conversion factors by multplying them to get the result or simply use the converters below. 1 Mile = 5280 Feet. 1 Mile [Nautical] = 6076.12 Feet.