Coming from a "metric country" I am just curious to why do you call the 1500m the metric mile? For example The german Wikipedia http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skandinavische_Meile says specifically that Metric mile = 10 000 m
Other links of interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_mile
Also the corresponding page in Norwegian: http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil Even if you don't understand Norwegian you may enjoy some interesting information there.
Other links of interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_mile
Also the corresponding page in Norwegian: http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil Even if you don't understand Norwegian you may enjoy some interesting information there.
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