. "Everest, George"@en . . . . . . . . "Colonel Sir George Everest (/\u02C8i\u02D0vr\u0268st/; July 4, 1790 \u2014 December 1, 1866) was a Welsh surveyor and geographer, and the Surveyor General of India from 1830 through 1843.Everest was largely responsible for completing the section of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India along the meridian arc from southern India extending north to Nepal, a distance of about 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi)."@en . "1790Z"^^ . "Welsh surveyor, geographer and Surveyor-General of India" . "1866-12-01Z"^^ . . . "Sir George Everest"@en . "1790-07-04Z"^^ . "1866Z"^^ .