Meanings
- alternativeAlternative spelling of Peak XV, former name of Mount Everest: a mountain in Himalayas, South Asia, on the border of Nepal and China in Tibet autonomous region.
Peak 15 was renamed in honor of Sir George Everest, the first leader of the British survey, a mapping expedition to the Himalayas.
1999, Steve Jenkins, The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://archive.org/details/topofworldclimbi0000jenk/page/n7/1 more example
By 1856 it was clear to Waugh that Peak 15 was indeed the highest mountain as yet discovered in the world and he intended to honor his predecessor, the man who began the Great Trigonometrical Survey in the earliest years of the nineteenth century, by naming Peak 15 after him.
2007, Russell T. McCutcheon, “What's in a Name?”, in Studying Religion: An Introduction, Routledge, published 2014, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 8-9
Origin
A designation from the Trigonometrical Survey of India, a British geographic survey of British India.
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