Pangong Tso

English Alternative forms en Bangong Co Etymology From en bo སྤང་གོང་མཚོ. Pronunciation pän′gông tsō′Pangong Tso or Pangkong Tsho 1423 2 Pangong Tso (pän′gông tsō′) or Pangkong Tsho (pän′kông tsō′), Chinese Pan-kung Hu (bän′go͝ong′ ho͞o′),Sometimes called Panggong Tso. Proper noun 1 en lake dist/Leh uterr/Ladakh ; lake co/Rutog ar/Tibet An <<endorheic lake>> on the border between <<dist/Leh>>, <<uterr/Ladakh>>, <<c/India>> and <<co:Suf/Rutog>>, <<ar/Tibet>>, <<c/China>>, with a portion in the disputed Aksai Chin. en 1868 June 16, 1866 H. H. Godwin-Austen Notes on the PANGONG LAKE district of LADAKH, from journal made in 1863 Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal https://archive.org/details/transactionsproc10bota/ 87 https://archive.org/details/journalofasiatic37asia/page/n244/ The Pangong Tso (lake) is about two and a half miles distant from the low ridge of the Surtokh La, or more properly speaking, its natural bar or bund, but the level of the old lake bed extends up to within a very short distance of the pass. A rise of 150 feet in the waters of the present lake would find them again an exit down the valley to Tanksè. A Trigonometrical station lies close to the water's edge, it bears east-south-east from a rock, a quarter mile distant out in the lake, and is marked with a stone having the usual dot and circle cut on it; its height has been determined trigonometrically to be 13,931 feet above the sea. From this mark-stone, a fine view of the first long reach of this elevated and interesting piece of water is obtained. Its colour is of an intense blue, the water as clear as crystal, but far too saline to be drinkable ; there was quite a true salt water feel in the air as the wind blew off it. en 1870 July 8, 1869 J. L. Stewart Notes of a Botanical Tour in Ladak or Western Tibet Transactions of the Botanical Society https://archive.org/details/transactionsproc10bota/ https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Transactions_of_the_Botanical_Society X 0372-0578 1127402458 224 https://archive.org/details/transactionsproc10bota/page/224/ From this, 14,800 feet, the slope was easy, and, while descending, light snow fell for about half an hour. Ere long I got my first glimpse of the Pangong Tso, with its great blue bosom everywhere indented by spurs of the lofty mountains round it. en 1987 w:Blanche Christine Olschak Himalayas: Growing Mountains, Living Myths, Migrating Peoples https://archive.org/details/himalayasgrowing0000olsc/ w:Facts on File 0-8160-1994-0 88-7204 1221349510 8050612M 81 https://archive.org/details/himalayasgrowing0000olsc/page/81/ The same valley leads farther off to the northwest, passes the fjord-like Pangong Tso to the south and then becomes part of the Shyok valley; the Shyok comes down from the Karakorum pass, flows south at first along the Karakorum fault and then swings sharply northwest by the little town of Shyok. en 2014 Sophie Lovell-Hoare; Max Lovell-Hoare Kashmir w:Bradt Guides https://archive.org/details/kashmirjammukash0000ibbo/ 978-1-84162-396-2 941247539 27164361M 139 https://archive.org/details/kashmirjammukash0000ibbo/page/139/ From May to September there is a bi-weekly JKSRTC bus from Leh to Spangmik, a village on the shore of Pangong Tso, which departs from Leh on Saturday and Sunday at 06.30, returning to Leh the following morning at 07.00. en February 21, 2021 Sanjeev Miglani Hundreds protest S.China project over pollution worries https://web.archive.org/web/20211011092128/https://www.reuters.com/world/china/india-china-complete-troop-pullout-lake-area-2021-02-21/ 11 October 2021 w:Reuters Thousands of soldiers have been facing off since April on the Line of Actual Control (LAC), or the de facto border, including at the glacial Pangong Tso lake. en Translations lake Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 班公錯, cmn 班公湖, cmn 哥木克哥那喇令錯, cmn 錯木昂拉仁波, cmn 潘光湖 historical Japanese: ja Korean: ko References Further reading Pangong Tso, Panggong Tso, Bangong Co en 1998 Pangong Tso Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2356 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2356/ 2