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MOUNT EVEREST, everyone knows, is the highest mountain in the world. It was discovered, and its height determined, during the operations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in the course of carrying out the geodetic triangulation of that country in the years 1849–50. The figure adopted, namely, 29,002 ft. above mean sea level, was derived from the mean of a large number of vertical angles observed to the peak from six different stations situated in the plains of India south of Nepal. These stations were at distances varying from 108 to 118 miles. It was not until some months afterwards, when the necessary computations had been completed, that the great height of Everest was first realised. The actual discovery was made in the computing office at Dehra Dun.
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CROSTHWAIT, H. Mount Everest. Nature 131, 10–14 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131010a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131010a0