Mt Everest
Mount Everest was not known to be the tallest mountain in the world until the Royal Geographical Society decided to do an extensive survey of the Himalayan Mountains in the 1840s. Did you find the 3 changes? Click to see the next puzzle.
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British cartographers under the direction of Andrew Waugh began mapping many of the mountains in the Himalayan mountain range. At the time nearby Kangchenjunga was thought to be the tallest mountain in the world. |
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