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bolletjeom schreef:Hint voor Tom

Welk deel van de aarde heeft het minste last van die winter en zomer werking ?!?!?

Jenny schreef:Gokje: Kilimanjaro?

Until the beginning of the nineteenth century it was thought that Chimborazo was the highest mountain on Earth (measured from sea level), and such reputation led to many attempts on its summit during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

^ It has been difficult to resolve this issue definitively because of error margins in summit elevations and geoid data. Application of the formula at Earth_radius#Radius_at_a_given_geodetic_latitude shows that earth's radius is 520 metres greater at Chimborazo than at Huascaran, which is 20 metres greater than the sea-level elevation difference (no more than 500 metres), and the most recent data shows that the geoid at Chimborazo is about 5 metres higher than at Huascaran. This suggests that, despite being 42 metres lower than the 6310 metres it was previously thought to be (and is still frequently claimed to be), Chimborazo's summit is about 25 metres further from the earth's centre than that of Huascaran.
^ In this ranking order several other Andean peaks and also Africa's highest mountain, Kilimanjaro, precede Everest.