Nautical Channel Nautical Channel Launched on 5 December 2011, Nautical Channel is the only international 24/7 nautical sports and lifestyle channel in the world. The channel caters to a local and worldwide audience and was founded by Andrew Miller and Laurence Fox Hopper. Nautical Channel is available to over 20 million subscribers in 44 countries in English, French and German. It is on over one hundred international pay TV, satellite, subscriber IpTV, mobile phone, Digital Terrestrial, MMDS and cable TV platforms. Nautical Channel has assembled the largest ever group of international nautical TV producers in order to provide viewers with the best
Nautical mile of latitude is not constant, but about at the poles and at the Equator, with a mean value of . Other countries measure the minute of arc at 45 degrees latitude, giving the nautical mile a length of . In 1929, the international nautical mile was defined by the First International Extraordinary Hydrographic Conference in Monaco as precisely 1,852 metres. Imperial units and United States customary units used a definition of the nautical mile based on the Clarke (1866) Spheroid. The United States nautical mile was defined as based in the Mendenhall Order foot of 1893. It was abandoned in