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Radhanath Sickdhar spent four and a half years calculating data as part of the Great Trigonometrical Survey (GTS) in 1819 to determine the height of Peak XV, which became known as Mt. Everest. The world's highest mountain was named after Sir George Everest, the surveyor general of India.

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