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The Everest House, Mussoorie

Mount Everest bears Sir George Everest's name. But did you know that it was an Indian mathematician named Radhanath Sikdar who first identified it as the tallest peak?


1. Mount Everest as seen from Drukair2 

Mount_Everest_as_seen_from_Drukair2.jpg: shrimpo1967derivative work: Papa Lima Whiskey 2, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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2. Photograph of George Everest by Maull & Polyblank

Maull & Polyblank, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Everest_-_Maull_%26_Polyblank.jpg


3. Physical map of India

Vigneshdm1990, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Physical_Map_of_India.jpg 


4. Photograph of Radhanath Sikdar, 1941

The Modern Review. July 1941, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radhanath_Sikdar_1941.jpg


5. Index of Great Trigonometrical Survey of India

Survey of India, Government of India, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1922_Index_of_Great_Trigonometrical_Survey_of_India.jpg


6. Andrew Scott Waugh 1861

Survey of India, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew_Scott_Waugh_1861.jpg


7. Kanchenjunga as seen from Gangtok, Sikkim

Johannes Bahrdt, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kangchenjunga-from-Gangtok.jpg


8. Papers on the Himalaya and Mount Everest in the Royal Geographical Society of London

Andrew Waugh, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Papers_relating_to_the_Himalaya_and_Mount_Everest%22_in_Proceedings_of_the_Royal_Geographical_Society_of_London,_Vol._I_(1857),_p._346.jpg


9. Relief and information about George Everest near Pune Zero Stone

DesiBoy101, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Relief_and_information_about_George_Everest_near_Pune_Zero_Stone.jpg


10. Radhanath Sikdar in a stamp of India

India Post, Government of India, GODL-India https://data.gov.in/sites/default/files/Gazette_Notification_OGDL.pdf, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radhanath_Sikdar_2004_stamp_of_India.jpg


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