Fermíla

The Fermíla is a historical measure of area in Iceland . It has no official status these days and is hardly used anymore.

1 Fermíla = 1 square mile / Icelandic Míla ² = 2.5889 square kilometers

Examples

Lesbók Morgunblaðsins , July 25, 1937: Dýrasta fermíla í heimi - an aerial photo of the center of Chicago as "the most expensive fermíla in the world".

Vikan , January 21, 1971: Nú er Surtsey orðin 560 fet á hæð yfir sjávarmál og ein fermíla að flatarmáli : " Surtsey is now 560 feet above sea level and an area one fermíla ".

literature

Günter Scholz, Klaus Vogelsang: Units, symbols, quantities. Fachbuchverlag, Leipzig 1991, ISBN 978-3-34300-500-0 , p. 125.

Individual evidence

↑ Dýrasta fermíla í Heimi . In: Lesbók Morgunblaðsins . No. 29 , July 25, 1937, pp. 232 (Icelandic, timarit.is ).
↑ Umhverfis Ísland á skútu . In: Vikan . 33rd volume, no. 3 , January 21, 1971, p. 33 (Icelandic, timarit.is ).

[1] Dýrasta fermíla í Heimi . In: Lesbók Morgunblaðsins . No. 29 , July 25, 1937, pp. 232 (Icelandic, timarit.is ).

[2] Umhverfis Ísland á skútu . In: Vikan . 33rd volume, no. 3 , January 21, 1971, p. 33 (Icelandic, timarit.is ).