Mount Formosa

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Mount Formosa was the Portuguese-British colonial-era name attributed to a group of contiguous hills near Kanhangad, Kerala, India.

The British colonial geographer and historian James Horsburgh stated that it is approximately located at 12° 22′ N latitude, at a distance of about 9 nautical leagues from Mangalore and about 6 - 6.5 nautical leagues from Mount Dilly.{{cite book|last1=Horsburgh|first1=James|title=India Directory, Or, Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, Australia, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil, and the Interjacent Ports, Volume 1|date=1836|publisher=W.H. Allen and Co.|location=London|page=421|edition=Fourth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GuY2AQAAMAAJ&q=malabar+dilly&pg=PA421|accessdate=5 October 2017}}