The United States has a 2, 000 mile land border with Mexico, and an equally long maritime border with the island states of the Caribbean.
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Van der Sloot said the boat owner showed up at his house later in the morning and told him he had taken the body out less than a mile from land and dumped it overboard.
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The vineyard is on a quarter-square-mile of leased land 4, 300 feet above sea level, east of the Rio Grande near Truth or Consequences, a two-and-a-half-hour drive south from Albuquerque.
The Queen Mother, who died in 2002, is depicted on a series of coins minted last year by Nightingale Island, a one-square-mile spot of land in the South Atlantic where many pirates were thought to have buried their treasures.
Liverpool, perhaps tired after their gruelling 1, 200-mile journey by land across Europe, will be grateful that they will not have to recover from a two or three-goal deficit following a poor game only redeemed by two good saves by goalkeeper Pepe Reina.
At the same time, the four on-land connection points are much less hassle than the number that would be required if a 350-mile transmission system was built on land.
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Project Runningblade's mower is driven by Don Wales, whose grandfather Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the world land speed record at seven-mile long Pendine Sands in 1924.
As soon as a helicopter goes beyond the 80-mile zone covered by land-based radar, its signal is picked up by the offshore platforms, with the data then returned to the airport.
The State Geologist has the testimony of old residents of Long Branch, who state that they farmed on land which is now a half mile out in the water, showing a tremendous eating away of the beach in half a century.
On most land masses, only the first half-mile has been mined.
Authorities searched the prison complex on Alcatraz Island, the 10-mile wide bay, and the surrounding land, to no avail.
The event is held every Memorial Day weekend in Ferndale, California, as artists race their bizarre wares across a 42-mile course over three days, including sections on land, sand, mud and water.
He had to convince local officials to rezone the land from office to residential and build a giant wall, a half-mile long and 200 feet deep, to keep the Mediterranean from seeping into the underground parking garage.
Sunday's action over the four-mile cross-country course was suspended for the air ambulance to land on more than one occasion, with Germany's Ingrid Klimke and Ireland's Elizabeth Power both taken to hospital having suffered knee damage and concussion respectively.
Now, Tanzania's government wants to give more land to the hunters by establishing a 1, 500 sq km (579 sq mile) wildlife corridor exclusively for OBC.
One organization gaining support from the RTCA is the Middlebury Area Land Trust which has been working for the past several years to construct a 14-mile trail around the town of Middlebury, Vermont.
In a briefing given shortly after the incident, Vice Admiral Kevin Cosgriff, Commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, maintained that the warships were traveling 15 miles from Iranian land territory at the time, and therefore outside the outer limits of the 12-mile Iranian territorial waters.
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