Peak XV

English

(historical) Synonym of Mount Everest
- 1856 March 1, A[ndrew] S[cott] Waugh, “1. Papers Relating to the Himalaya and Mount Everest. A. By Lieutenant-Colonel A. S. Waugh, Surveyor-General of India, dated Dehra, March 1st, 1856; […]”, in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, volume I, number IX, London: Edward Stanford, […] [for the Royal Geographical Society], published 11 May 1857, →OCLC, pages 345–346:
  The revision has proceeded to some extent, and I am now in possession of the final values for the peak designated XV in the list in the Office of the Surveyor-General of India. […] Mont Everest, or Himalaya Peak XV.
- 2002, Joy Masoff, “Chronology”, in Everest: Reaching for the Sky‎^[1], Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 45:
  1856 A survey of India finds that Peak XV in the Himalayas is the world's tallest mountain.