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website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Millers Landing:
32.917071, -91.060940
Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
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Bird Watching ...
We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Issaquena County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found three communities that are also named Millers Landing.
Within Mississippi, the name Millers Landing is unique.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of three communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, .
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alaska
This Millers Landing lies 3,264 miles [5,252.9 km]<1> to the northwest of the Millers Landing that is located in Issaquena County.
British Columbia
This Millers Landing lies 2,002 miles [3,221.9 km]<1> to the northwest of the Millers Landing that is located in Issaquena County.
California
Colusa County
This Millers Landing is located in Colusa County and lies 1,761 miles [2,834.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Millers Landing that is located in Issaquena County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Colusa County community of Millers Landing.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Millers Landing ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Millers Landing to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Millers Landing and extending to:
Jackson, which is the State Capital of Mississippi, lies 66 miles [106.2 km]<1> to the southeast (SE). If you could walk a straight line from Millers Landing to Jackson, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take three full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take about three full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 885 miles [1,424.3 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of two days, a buggy would take 35 days and walking would take 51 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,755 miles [10,871.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,474 miles [12,028.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,349 miles [8,608.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Millers Landing) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>
While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<4>
The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Millers Landing to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Millers Landing. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.9171, Longitude: -91.0609 In this case, the coordinates for Millers Landing have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.243 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.182 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.155 degrees.