Mount Kosciuszko

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The thing was for years and years it was called Mount Kozikusko and it was this wonderful mountain. Basically they discovered, and this was explained in a 1910 book, that they eventually started recalculating the sizes and heights of mountains and discovered that a mountain just near Mount Kozikusko called Mount Townsend was actually taller. Suddenly we had a new tallest mountain and rather than changing all the books, they just decided this is going to be a massive hassle.

from 104: No Such Thing As A Herd Of Koalas, 2016-03-11 at 00:29:03 · read transcript ⏱ 00:29:03