Peak 15
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A designation from the Trigonometrical Survey of India, a British geographic survey of British India.
Proper noun
[edit]- Former name of Mount Everest; alternative form of Peak XV: a mountain in Himalayas, South Asia, on the border of Nepal and China in Tibet.
- 2007, Russell T. McCutcheon, “What's in a Name?”, in Studying Religion: An Introduction[1], Routledge, published 2014, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 8-9:
- 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.