LOCATION AND STRUCTURE OF INDIA
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Godwin Austin
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Kancenjunga
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Nanda devi
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none of above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Earth’s second highest mountain, after Mount Everest, is K2, also known as Mount Godwin Austen and as Dapsang. The peak, 28, 238 feet (8, 607 meters) high, is in the Karakoram Range of northern Jammu and Kashmir, near the border of Pakistan and China.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mount K2 (8611 meters), located in Jammu and Kashmir, also known as Godwin-Austen is the highest peak in India.
Detailed explanation-3: -K2, Chinese Qogir Feng, also called Mount Godwin Austen, called locally Dapsang or Chogori, the world’s second highest peak (28, 251 feet [8, 611 metres]), second only to Mount Everest.
Detailed explanation-4: -With the mountain lacking a local name, the name Mount Godwin-Austen was suggested, in honour of Henry Godwin-Austen, an early explorer of the area.