A slang term for the kilometre in the military is klick and in common speech involving distance it is often abbreviated as simply a k (kay).
When Australia introduced the metric system, the first pronunciation was declared official by the government's Metric Conversion Board. However, the Australian Prime Minister at the time, Gough Whitlam, insisted that the second pronunciation was the correct one because of the Greek origins of the two parts of the word.
200px|right|thumb|Niagara Falls from Prospect Point | The distance between the American extremity of the Niagara Falls and the Canadian extremity is 1039 m, or fractionally over a kilometre. Although the length of the rim of the Canadian extremity (Horseshoe Falls is quoted as being 790 m and the rim of the American extremity American Falls as being 320 m which add up to more than 1110 m, the rim of the Horseshoe falls is far from straight, so the direct distance between the end-points is 304 m. |
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NE extremity of American Falls | SW extremity of the Horseshoe Falls |
Buckingham Palace, is one of London>London’s main tourist attractions. Immediately in front of the palace is the Victoria Memorial, erected in memory of Queen Victoria (foreground of the picture to the right). At the opposite end is the Admiralty Arch which links The Mall to Trafalgar Square. The distance from the entrance to the Admiralty Arch to the centre of the Victoria Memorial is 987 m. |
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Centre of the Victoria Memorial | Entrance to the Admiralty Arch |
Hong Kong Harbour boasts one of the busiest waterways in the world. Until 1970 the only way to cross the harbour was the Star Ferry which had terminals on the Kowloon peninsular and the island of Hong Kong itself. The distance that the ferry travels, as measured from passenger entrance to passenger entrance is 1007 m. |
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Hong Kong (Central Star Ferry Pier) | Kowloon (Tsim Sha Tsui Star Ferry Pier) |
List of longest suspension bridge spans>suspension bridges have a central span of a kilometre or more. The George Washington Bridge in New York (central span 1067 m) was the first bridge in the world to have a span of more than a kilometre and between 1931 and 1937, had the longest span of any bridge in the world. Other bridges that have a central span of about one kilometre include: | :1030 m Third Kurushima-Kaikyo Bridge in Japan | :1020 m Second Kurushima-Kaikyo Bridge in Japan | Tagus Bridge>Ponte 25 de Abril (Tagus Bridge) in Lisbon, Portugal | :1006 m Forth Road Bridge in Scotland | Kita Bisan-Seto Bridge>Kita Bisan-Seto Bridge (Great Seto Bridge) in Japan | :988 m Severn Bridge linking England and Wales |
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