HEIGHT OF EVEREST.
India Refuses to Accept New Measurement. CALCUTTA, December 2. Whatever European geographers may do, India will adhere to 29,002 feet as the height of its own mountain, Everest. Attempts to lift it still higher are opposed in India. British geographers recently altered the figure on their maps to 29,141 feet; but the Survey of India declines to *accept this figure, saying that it is impossible to take the true line of spirit levelling on top of Mount Everest, but only to take heights from distant points. The true value remains uncertain, but it is in no case higher than 29,065 feet. Therefore, declares Colonel Couchman Surveyor-General ’in India, there is no intention of changing the well-known value of 29,002 feet. It is most unlikely that the new figure, 29,141 feet, will ever be accepted, he says, and he regrets that some European geographers «have apparently done so.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 940, 9 December 1933, Page 1
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