List of past presumed highest mountains
- List of past presumed highest mountains
The following is a list of mountains that have been presumed, at one time, to be the highest mountain in the world. How general the following presumptions were is unclear.
* Chimborazo, convert|6267|m|ft|0. Presumed highest from sixteenth century until the beginning of the nineteenth century.
* Nanda Devi, convert|7816|m|ft|0. Presumed highest in the world before Kangchenjunga was sighted in an era when Nepal was still closed to the world.
* Dhaulagiri, convert|8167|m|ft|0. Presumed highest from 1808 until 1838.
* Kangchenjunga, convert|8586|m|ft|0. Presumed highest from 1838 until 1852.
* Mount Everest, convert|8848|m|ft|0. Established as highest in 1852.
Related notes
* This list has no relevance before the first world-wide explorations in the sixteenth century. However there may have been a generally agreed presumptive winner before Chimborazo. The importance of Turkey's 5165 m (16,946 ft) Mount Ararat to several early civilisations may presuppose that it was believed to be the world's highest peak.
* The summit of Chimborazo is in fact the farthest point from the Earth's center, due to the equatorial bulge. (There may be a close tie with Huascarán.)
* An inaccurate survey in the 1980s led to claims that K2, convert|8611|m|ft|0, was in fact higher than Everest. These claims were widely reported but were found to have no validity.
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