Mountains Facts : Smallest & largest mountain in the world

 #1 World's smallest mountain:

Mount Wycheproof, the world's smallest mountain, is located in Wycheproof, a small town in the south-eastern state of Victoria, Australia. It is about 43 meters high from the surroundings. Mount Wycheproof is part of the Lower Terek Terek Range.

Wycheproof is also famous for a unique mineral called Wycheproofite. Wycheproofite can be recognized by its pink color and its transparency.

#2 Highest mountain peak in the world:

I think most of us are aware that Mount Everest is the highest peak in the world above sea level which is located on the China-Nepal border.

Its height is about 8,848 meters. It extends for 2400 km between Namcha Barwa at the eastern end of the Himalayan mountain range and Nanga Parbat at the western end.

Now I am going to tell you such interesting historical facts that you will be surprised to know. 

Amazing Facts :

The Himalayas are a vast mountain range formed by plate tectonic forces and sculpted by weathering and erosion.

According to geologists, 60 million years ago there was a Tethys sea at the site of the Himalayas. But due to the tremendous collision between the Eurasian continent and the Indian subcontinent, the northern part of the Indian subcontinent came under the Eurasian continent. In this convergence, the Eurasian continent was compressed into folds at the subduction line. As a result, the Himalayas were formed.

The Himalayan region supplies fresh water for more than 1/5 of the world's population. The source of some of the largest rivers. There are many major rivers of the world that originate from the Himalayas, the Indus River, the Ganges River-Brahmaputra River, and the Yangtze. It has the highest concentration of glaciers outside the polar regions. This last feature earned the Himalayas its name, which originated from Sanskrit for "abode of snow".

#3  Second highest mountain in the world:

K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth after Mount Everest. It is about 8,611 meters high. It was named K2 because of its location in the Karakoram Range. It is also known as Mount Godwin-Austen. Mount Godwin Austen was named after the first surveyor of the peak, Colonel H.H. Godwin Austen, a 19th-century English geographer. The mountain was first surveyed in 1856 by a British team. Team member Thomas Montgomery designated mountain "K2" as the second peak of the Karakoram Range.

                                                                                           

#4  Highest mountain peak of India

Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world while it is the highest peak in India. It is an 8,586 meters high peak located in the Himalayan ranges. If we talk about its location, then it is situated between India and Nepal.

Until 1852, Kangchenjunga was assumed to be the highest mountain in the world, but calculations based on various readings and measurements made by the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in 1849 came to the conclusion and it was officially announced in 1856 that Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world.

Kangchenjunga was first climbed on 25 May 1955 by Joe Brown and George Band, who were part of the 1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition. The Chogyal was promised that there would be no attack on the top of the mountain, they stopped before the summit.

#5 Longest mountain range in the world:

If we talk about the longest mountain range in the world, then the Andes mountain range comes at the top. This range is about 7,000 km long. The range extends from north to south along the west coast of the continent of South America and passes through seven countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. The highest peak in this range is Aconcagua. It is about 6,962 meters high.

Historical facts :

Usually, mountains or mountain ranges are formed as a result of the movement of tectonic plates. As we saw in the process of formation of the Himalayas.

But here if we talk about the formation of the Andes mountain range,

it was formed as a result of the convergence of two major tectonic plates, the oceanic crust (Nazca plate) and the continental plate (South American plate). In this convergence, the continental plate was dominated by heavy oceanic crust (Nazca Plate). And at the point of subduction, the Andes mountain range developed due to the compression and folds of the continental plate.

The timing of its origin has been a matter of controversy for the past decade. But new research suggests it is much older than previously estimated.