Mount Everest : Sagarmatha (Nepali), Qomolangma (Chinese) /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	National Geographic Society (U.S.). Committee for Research and Exploration, National Geographic Society (U.S.). Cartographic Division
Other Authors:	Garver, John B., Jr
Format:	Map
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, [1988]
Subjects:	Everest, Mount, Region (China and Nepal) > Maps. Himalaya Mountains > Maps. Phytogeography > Himalaya Mountains > Maps. Aerial views.

Description
Item Description:	Relief shown by contours, shading, hachures, and spot heights. Contour interval 40 m., index contours 400 m. View of Himalayas also shows natural vegetation. Panel title. Joint research effort with the Henry S. Hall Jr., Everest Fund of Boston's Museum of Science, with the support of His Majesty's Government of Nepal, National Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, the People's Republic of China. Map of Himalaya Mountains produced by Cartographic Division, National Geographic Society. "Supplement to the National Geographic, November 1988, page 652A, volume 174, number 5--High Himalaya." Includes glossary of Chinese, Tibetan, Nepali terms, text, col. ill., location map, and small scale black-and-white view of enlarged map of "High Himalaya." Relief shown by contours, shading hachures and spot heights. Contour interval 40 m., index contours 400 m. Includes glossary of Chinese, Tibetan, and Nepali terms. On verso: High Himalaya: a computer-generated landscape portrait, produced by the Cartographic Division. Text, col. ill., inset "High-tech land-cover mapping." "Supplement to the National Geographic, November 1988, page 652A, volume 174, number 5." Cartographic material.
Physical Description:	1 map and 1 view on 1 sheet : both sides, color ; 52 x 72 cm. and 42 x 89 cm., sheet 92 x 58 cm., folded to 23 x 15 cm.