And people used to come from miles around to swim in the lake.

The answer is actually 186,540 miles, or seven times around the globe.

For hours afterwards, the sea was strewn with bits of wood for miles around all of this was from the houses in the slum.

These men were 10,000 miles from home, more than 1,000 miles from the nearest scrap of land.

BC From this point, we're going to decelerate from 12,500 miles an hour down to 900 miles an hour.

They have 22 satellites zipping around at plus or minus 100 miles, and the site's in red.

The mid ocean ridge is a huge mountain range, 40,000 miles long, snaking around the entire globe.

Sydney is miles away from here.

So, how is it that people went from the 12,000 miles a year to 500 miles?

That's Earth from four billion miles away.

Imagine that whale listening from 500 miles.

It's eight miles from here to London.

They had come from thousands of miles away.

That's our planet from 750 million miles away.

The lawyers and the judges would travel from one county courthouse to the other, and when anyone was knowing Lincoln was in town, they would come from miles around to listen to him tell stories.

The town is two miles away from the coast.

It is two miles from here to the park.

A mile and a half from the surface to two miles to three miles no sun has ever gotten down here.

Jim went three miles went down, and I went about three miles away from the studio and photographed this in a garage.

Fifty miles, 40 miles, it doesn't matter.

Ten miles, 100 miles, 1,000 miles later, they find themselves in dirty, dangerous, demeaning work.

Approximately 5,000 miles from Delhi is the little town of Gateshead.

Here's the same call recorded from a hydrophone 500 miles away.

In 1989, a large asteroid passed 400,000 miles away from Earth.

I'm 80 miles from shore, what's going to happen to me?

The ice could be anywhere from three to 16 miles deep.

The world's largest and most profitable gold mine, Grasberg, owned by Phoenix based Freeport McMoran, lies just 60 miles from Paniai, a highland province around the size of New Jersey and home to 153,000 people.

BC In the first 15 seconds after we deploy the parachute, we'll decelerate from 900 miles an hour to a relatively slow 250 miles an hour.

The institution may be hundreds of miles away from the family home.

This place is remote. It's over 200 miles from any major city.

It's a tiny, little island 60 miles by 90 miles.

And I'm planning to go from 120,000 feet, which is about 22 miles.

If this woman has to carry water on her head for miles and miles and miles, you cannot be celebrating that.

That's my view from my window outside of Santa Cruz, in Bonny Doon, just 35 miles from here.

We cover hundreds of miles, and we fly about 450 miles an hour.

Crossing miles and miles of sastrugi frozen ice snowdrifts that could be hip deep.

This thing is orbiting the sun at 10 miles per second, 20 miles per second.

For example, this Opel two seater does 155 miles an hour at 94 miles a gallon.

It s only 500 miles.

We've driven 140,000 miles.

So that's all water under the sea a mile and a half, two miles, three miles down.

In the Lower 48, the farthest you can get away from a maintained road is 20 miles.

Now you are listening to a recording made by Chris Clark, 0.2 miles away from a humpback.

Watching exploration live from thousands of miles away, and it's just dawning on her what she's seeing.

Rosa, still at hurricane strength Sunday morning with maximum winds of 85 miles per hour, is 385 miles south of Punta Eugenia, Mexico and moving north at 12 miles per hour.