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I'll just quote Wikipedia: "The title refers to the distance traveled while under the sea and not to a depth, as 20,000 leagues is over six times the diameter,
by orjan 10y ago
I'll just quote Wikipedia:
"The title refers to the distance traveled while under the sea and not to a depth, as 20,000 leagues is over six times the diameter, and nearly twice the circumference of the Earth.[2] The greatest depth mentioned in the book is four leagues. The book uses metric leagues, which are four kilometres each"
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_the_Sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_...)
- notahacker 10y agoOf course, if we're being pedantic about details, that still puts the depth the Nautilus reached at over a kilometre into the earth's crust below even the deepest part of the known ocean...
- ocschwar 10y agoLet's be kind to Verne. He did not know the depth of the Marianas trench.