How deep is 520 leagues?
It's about 3,000 times as tall as Tugela Falls
The height of Tugela Falls is about 0.1710 leagues.
(Royal Natal National Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
Tugela Falls rises to 948 m in height. The falls are the highest in Africa and the second highest in the world.
It's about 3,000 times as tall as Olo'upena Falls
The height of Olo'upena Falls is about 0.1620 leagues.
(a.k.a. Oloupena Falls) (Molokai, Hawaii)
Olo'upena Falls rise to 900.1 m in height. The isolated falls are the tallest in the United States and the fourth tallest in the world.
It's about 3,500 times as tall as Burj Dubai
The height of Burj Dubai is about 0.1490 leagues.
(formally Burj Khalifa, a.k.a. Dubai Tower, a.k.a. برج خليفة) (Dubai, UAE) (to roof)
Burj Khalifa, the tallest manmade structure in the world, stands 828 m to its roof. The tower also holds the current records for the world's highest Islamic mosque — at approximately 577 m on the 158th floor (of 163 floors) — and the world's tallest outdoor swimming pool — at approximately 285 m on the 78th floor.
It's about 4,000 times as tall as Gocta Falls
The height of Gocta Falls is about 0.1390 leagues.
(a.k.a. Gocta Cataracts, a.k.a. Catarata del Gocta) (Amazonas, Peru) (total height)
It's about 4,500 times as tall as a Canton Tower
The height of a Canton Tower is about 0.110 leagues.
(a.k.a. Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower, a.k.a. 广 州 电 视 观 光 塔) (Guangzhou, China) (to spire)
It's about 5,000 times as tall as The CN Tower
The height of The CN Tower is about 0.099591 leagues.
(a.k.a. La Tour CN, a.k.a. Canadian National Tower, a.k.a. Canada's National Tower) (Toronto, Canada) (to spire)
The CN Tower measures 553.33 m tall at its spire. Used only in emergencies and for charitable climbing events, the 2,579-step staircase to the top is the longest metal staircase in the world.
It's about 5,500 times as tall as The Willis Tower
The height of The Willis Tower is about 0.0936 leagues.
(a.k.a. Sears Tower) (Chicago, Illinois) (to antenna peak)
It's about 6,000 times as tall as The Shanghai World Financial Center
The height of The Shanghai World Financial Center is about 0.0886 leagues.
(上海环球金融中 上海環球金融中心, Shànghǎi huánqiú jīnróng zhōngxīn) (a.k.a. SWFC) (Shanghai, China) (to spire)
It's about 6,500 times as tall as The Petronas Twin Towers
The height of The Petronas Twin Towers is about 0.08134 leagues.
(a.k.a. Menara Berkembar Petronas, a.k.a. Petronas Towers) (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) (to spire)
It's about 7,500 times as tall as The Empire State Building
The height of The Empire State Building is about 0.068576 leagues.
(New York City, New York) (to top of building)
The Empire State Building stands 381.01 m to its architectural peak. The spire emerging from the top of the building was originally intended to be a mooring mast for blimps whose passengers could disembark onto a landing platform on the 102nd floor of the building.
It's about 9,000 times as tall as The Eiffel Tower
The height of The Eiffel Tower is about 0.0583 leagues.
(a.k.a. La Tour Eiffel) (Paris, France) (to flagpole peak)
It's about 10,000 times as long as The QE2
The length of The QE2 is about 0.0529 leagues.
(a.k.a. RMS Queen Elizabeth 2)
The QE2 has a total length of 294 m. During its voyaging lifetime from 1969 through 2008, it travelled more than 9.6 million km, the furthest cumulative distance by any ship in modern history.
It's about 15,000 times as tall as The Golden Gate Bridge
The height of The Golden Gate Bridge is about 0.0409 leagues.
(San Francisco, California and Marin County, California) (height above water)
The height of each tower of Golden Gate Bridge is 227 m above the surface of the San Francisco Bay. One of the key designers of the bridge, Charles Ellis, had no engineering degree when he began working on the project, but would later go on to write what became a standard textbook on structural engineering, and would ultimately be forced to complete his calculations on the bridge by working without pay for five months.
It's about 15,000 times as tall as The Space Needle
The height of The Space Needle is about 0.0331 leagues.
(Seattle, Washington) (to aircraft warning beacon at peak)
Built for a 1962 World's Fair, the Space Needle stands 184 m tall. With a track-and-wheel design inspired by railroad mechanics and a precisely-configured balance, the restaurant near the top of the space needle requires just a 1.5 hp motor to rotate at speeds of about 0.053 kph (0.033 mph).
It's about 15,000 times as tall as St. Paul's Cathedral
The height of St. Paul's Cathedral is about 0.0313 leagues.
(London, England, United Kingdom)
St. Paul's Cathedral measures 174 m to its peak. The southwest tower of the Cathedral contains the bell known as "Great Paul," which is the largest bell in Great Britain at 15,000 kg (16.5 tons), outweighing the more iconic Big Ben bell by about 3,000 kg (3 tons).