biography
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Godwin-Austen, Henry Haversham
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1834–1923)
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| biography:
| British soldier and surveyor. A lieutenant-colonel, he was attached to the trigonometrical survey of India (1856–77). The second highest mountain in the world, in the Himalayas (also known as K2), was named Mt Godwin-Austen after him in 1888. |
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