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DNA Explainer : What is the calculated height of Mount Everest?
In 1830, Sir George Everest became director of Survey of India. In 1831 he appointed Radhanath Sikdar a mathematician from WB to the post of Computer.
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Updated: Jan 13, 2021, 06:22 PM IST
Indian mathematician and surveyor Radhanath Sikdar was probably the first person to identify that Mount Everest (then known as peak XV) was the world s highest peak as he was the first person to calculate the height of the mountain in 1852. However it was officially announced in March 1856.
In 1830, Sir George Everest became the director of Survey of India and in the year 1831, he appointed Radhanath Sikdar, a mathematician from West Bengal, to the post of Computer in the Survey of India.
DNA Special: All about Radhanath Sikdar, the man who measured Mount Everest for the first time ever
Andrew Scott Waugh considered Sir George Everest as his mentor and that s why he sent a proposal to rename Peak 15 mountain peak to Mount Everest.
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Updated: Jan 13, 2021, 11:20 PM IST
Do you know why and how the world s highest mountain peak got its name Mount Everest? History has taught us that in 1856 the Royal Geographical Society named the highest mountain peak in the world as Mount Everest . It was named after Sir George Everest, who was the head of the survey and map-making organization Survey of India from 1830 to 1843. Sir George Everest died on December 2, 1866.