Godwin-Austen, the second highest peak in the world, is situated in the Himalayan system, in the western range that is crossed in the east by the Karakoram Pass. Its height is 28,250 feet. Distinguished in the records of the great trigonometrical survey only by the sign K2, it was named in 1888 after Lieut.-colonel Godwin-Austen of the Trigonometrical Survey of India.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 273
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