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Definition of Gosainthan
1. Noun. A mountain in the Himalayas in Tibet (26,290 feet high).
Generic synonyms: Mountain Peak
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gosainthan
Literary usage of Gosainthan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1857)
"... a vast Himalayan peak situated 60 to 70 miles east of gosainthan, fine) which
Colonel ... answers precisely to cast longitude 87°, gosainthan being in ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1858)
"The position of Mount Everest is connected with that of gosainthan as a known
... Further, the position of gosainthan given in the Physical Geography of the ..."
3. A Sketch of the Geography and Geology of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet by Sidney Gerald Burrard, Henry Hubert Hayden (1908)
"They drain the whole hills between Dhaulagiri and gosainthan, ... Nor does a
single streamlet of the Trisul arise east of the peak of gosainthan, ..."
4. An Elementary Geography of India, Burma, and Ceylon by Henry Francis Blanford (1904)
"gosainthan is the highest peak of that which separates the basins of the Gandak
and the Kosi, and Mount Everest rises between the ..."
5. The Geography of British India, Political & Physical by George Smith (1882)
"E. of Dhawalagiri; (3) Kerang, W. of gosainthan Mountains; (4) Kuti E.,—the two
last are the most frequented; the roads join at Tingri, where the Chinese ..."
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