Who Was Mount Everest Named After?
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2 min readMar 1
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Mount Everest was named after Sir George Everest, a previous British Surveyor General of India, in 1865. But Everest didn’t even want it named after him, and it’s believed he never saw the mountain.
In the span of many decades during the early 1800s, the Great Trigonometric Society of British India surveyed the area, which is now Mount Everest, from a resort 140 miles away in Darjeeling, India. It was…
