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KINCHINJUNGA, or KANCHANJANGA

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 802 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KINCHINJUNGA, or KANCHANJANGA , the third (or second; see K2) highest See also:mountain in the See also:world. It is a See also:peak of the eastern Himalayas, situated on the boundary between See also:Sikkim and See also:Nepal, with an See also:elevation of 28,146 ft. Kinchinjunga is best seen from the See also:Indian See also:hill-station of See also:Darjeeling, where the view of this stupendous mountain, dominating all intervening ranges and rising from regions of tropical undergrowth to the See also:altitude of eternal snows, is one of the grandest in the world.

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