Citations:Aksai Chin

English citations of Aksai Chin

Region

• 1868, Albert M. Verchere, “Kashmir, the Western Himalaya and the Afghan Mountains”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal‎^[1], volume XXXVI, →OCLC, page 111:

  The bed is not limited to the belt of country situated between Ser and Mer (Snowy Peak Range) chain and the Kailas chain. It is well developed in Rodok, near the Pang Chong Lake and up to the foot of the Korakoram chain, and it is very probable that the great Desert of Aksai Chin is a similar bed.

• 1874, Keith Johnston, The Surface Zones of the Globe‎^[2], W. & A. K. Johnston, →OCLC, page 37:

  In the basin which lies immediately eastward of the valley of the head stream of the Indus, is the Aksai Chin, or White desert, concerning which, however, little more is known to Europeans than the name.

• [1904, M. A. Stein, A Journey of Geographical and Archaeological Exploration in Chinese Turkestan (Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 1903)‎^[3], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 759:

  In a grand mountain mass raising its glacier-crowned head in solitary splendor to the southeast, it was impossible to mistake the "Kuen-luen peak, No. 5," already triangulated from the Ladak side (pl. II). Behind this great mountain, for which the tables supplied by the survey department indicated a height of 23,890 feet, to the south and southeast there was to be seen a magnificent line of high snowy peaks marking the watershed toward the westernmost portion of the Aksai-chin plateau of Tibet.]

• 1964, Alastair Lamb, The China-India Border‎^[4], Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 7:

  In this sector there are really two quite distinct disputes. The first is the issue of Aksai Chin, the desolate high wastes of the extreme north-east of Kashmir, across which the Chinese have built a motor road linking western Tibet with Sinkiang....The bulk of the contested area lies in the Aksai Chin region. South of the Panggong lake there are a number of contested points, near Chushul and at Demchok on the Indus for example. The Changchenmo serves as a connecting region between the Chinese claims in Aksai Chin and those south of Panggong lake.

• 2021 February 21, “India, China 'complete disengagement' of troops from part of border”, in France 24‎^[5], archived from the original on 21 February 2021‎^[6]:

  India and China share a 3,500-kilometre (2,200-mile) border, with disputes at other points in Ladakh, including at Aksai Chin, a strategic corridor linking Tibet to western China next to the Galwan valley, and at Naku La pass further east, which connects Sikkim state with Tibet.

• 2021 March, Freddie Wilkinson, “A Line in the Mountains”, in National Geographic‎^[7], page 112:

  Then in 1962, Chinese forces seized the Aksai Chin, a high desert region in the eastern corner of Kashmir, which further muddled the border question.

Lake

• [1922, Sven Hedin, Southern Tibet‎^[8], Stockholm, →OCLC, page 5:

  This pass is described as situated in the Kisil-korum Range, which is a branch from the Kara-tagh Range. The next day they arrived at the great lake Aksáe Chin, 16,620 feet, although I cannot make out what particular lake he means.]