GBC
Length/Distance

League

Modern equivalent

3 miles = 4.828 kilometres

An ancient unit representing the estimated distance a person could walk in one hour.

Famous in maritime literature and adventure tales (such as *Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea*), the league provided an intuitive human pacing metric for overland and coastal travel.

In the language

A stone's throw

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