Everest is so named because
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because of it's heigh...
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Mount Everest is a peak in the Himalaya mountain range. It is located between Nepal and Tibet, an autonomous region of China. ... In the nineteenth century, the mountain was named after George Everest, a former Surveyor General of India.
HOW DID EVEREST GET ITS NAME
The peak was named after British surveyor George Everest in 1856. ... The story goes that in 1852 Radhanath Sikhdar, a mathematician working for the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, discovered what he thought was the highest summit in the world.
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