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Download Solution PDF‘Which of the following mountains and states/UT is NOT correct matched?
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Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is K2 mountain - Himachal Pradesh.
Key Points
- K2, Chinese Qogir Feng, also called Mount Godwin Austen, called locally Dapsang or Chogori, the world’s second highest peak (28,251 feet [8,611 meters]), second only to Mount Everest.
- K2 is located in the Karakoram Range and lies partly in a Chinese-administered enclave of the Kashmir region within the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, China, and partly in the Gilgit-Baltistan portion of Kashmir under the administration of Pakistan.
- The glacier- and snow-covered mountain rises from its base at about 15,000 feet (4,570 meters) on the Godwin Austen Glacier, a tributary of the Baltoro Glacier.
- The mountain was discovered in 1856 by Col. T.G. Montgomerie of the Survey of India, and it was given the symbol K2 because it was the second peak measured in the Karakoram Range.
Additional Information
- Saser Kangari
- India's Saser Kangri (sometimes spelt Sasir Kangri) is a mountain. It is the tallest mountain in the Saser Muztagh, which is the Karakoram range's easternmost subrange. Ladakh, India's most northern union territory, contains Sasir Kangri.
- Nandadevi
- After Kangchenjunga, Nanda Devi is the second-highest peak in India and the tallest one that is totally within the nation. (Kangchenjunga is on the border of India and Nepal). It is the world's 23rd-highest peak.
- Before calculations in 1808 revealed Dhaulagiri to be higher, Nanda Devi was thought to be the tallest peak in the world.
- Kanchenjunga
- After Kangchenjunga, Nanda Devi is the second-highest peak in India and the tallest one that is totally within the nation. (Kangchenjunga is on the border of India and Nepal). It is the world's 23rd-highest peak.
- Before calculations in 1808 revealed Dhaulagiri to be higher, Nanda Devi was thought to be the tallest peak in the world.
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