What was Mount Everest named after?

Answer 1

George Everest's student, Andrew Waugh, had surveyed and mapped Everest. When he had done so, there were several names by multiple cultures at the time. Some of these names include, but are not limited to Qomolangma, Zhumulangma, Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng, and Sagarmāthā. In order to simplify things, Waugh, as the surveyor and mapper of the mountain, decided to give the mountain an official name. In order to better understand Waugh's thoughts, this excerpt was taken from

"Papers relating to the Himalaya and Mount Everest", Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, no.IX pp.345-351, April-May 1857.

"I was taught by my respected chief and predecessor, Colonel Sir George Everest to assign to every geographical object its true local or native appellation. But here is a mountain, most probably the highest in the world, without any local name that we can discover, whose native appellation, if it has any, will not very likely be ascertained before we are allowed to penetrate into Nepal. In the meantime the privilege as well as the duty devolves on me to assign...a name whereby it may be known among citizens and geographers and become a household word among civilized nations."

Because Waugh could not determine what to do, he insisted that Everest be named after his mentor. George Everest did not agree with this adoption, but regardless of his opposition the Royal Geographical Society adopted the proposed name (proposed in 1857 by Andrew Waugh) in 1865. Oddly enough, the actual pronunciation of the mountain does not match that of George Everest's last name. George Everest's last name is actually pronounced Eve-rest opposed to the mountain's pronunciation of Everest. Nonetheless, the accustomed name has a long history as previously described.

Answer 2

Mount Everest was named after George Everest, of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. Sir George Everest was the first person to record the height and location of Mt. Everest, this is where Mt."Everest" got its name from(In American language).

Answer 3

The mountain was named in English - it had been named much earlier by the people who lived around it - in 1865 by the Royal Geographic Society when the British surveyor-general of India, Andrew Waugh, named it after his predecessor, the Welshman Colonel George Everest. The Colonel's name was pronounced without the second 'e', so 'Evr-st', but the name of the mountain pronounces all the 'e's.

Answer 4

It was mapped by George Everest.

George Everest was a Welsh surveyor and geographer, and the Surveyor General of India from 1830 through 1843. In 1865, Mount Everest was named in his honour despite his objections by the Royal Geographical Society. This enormous peak was surveyed by Everest's successor, Andrew Scott Waugh, in his role as the Surveyor-General of India. George had nether climbed on Mount Everest.

Answer 5

It was decided that Peak XV should be named as Mount Everest, after George Everest, the Surveyor General of India. In 1865, despite the objections from George Everest the Royal Geographical Society officially adopted Mount Everest as the name for the highest mountain in the world.

Answer 6

1865 after sir george Everest it was known as peak 15 before this.

Answer 7

Mount Everest was named after Sir George Everest.

Answer 8

Everest was named Mount Everest after the Surveyor-General of India, George Everest, who was in charge of surveying the Himalayas at the time the mountain was discovered.

Answer 9

Mt. Everest was named by the Royal Geographical Society after a British Surveyor General of India, Sir George Everest.