Depsang Plains

English Maps of Depsang Plains Etymology en Pronunciation en /dɛp.sɑŋ pleɪnz/ /-sæŋ-/ Proper noun Depsang plain s A gravelly plain in eastern Ladakh and the disputed Aksai Chin. en 1868 22 April 1866 W. H. Johnson Report on his Journey to Ilchí, the Capital of Khotan, in Chinese Tartary. w:The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London https://books.google.com/books?id=1lwMAAAAIAAJ XXXVII London John Murray (publishing house) John Murray 0266-6235 66168045 39 https://books.google.com/books?id=1lwMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA39 There is another route from Baltí Púlú to Sarsil from the Depsang Plains, but it is only used in summer, on account of the cold in these plains being very severe in winter. en 1876 27 September 1874 J. Scully A Contribution to the Ornithology of Eastern Turkestan Allan Octavian Hume Allan Hume Stray Feathers Stray Feathers: A Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies https://archive.org/details/strayfeathersjou41876hume/ IV Calcutta Calcutta Central Press 1697173 59 https://archive.org/details/strayfeathersjou41876hume/page/59/ It seems to me that I entered the hills, from the Indian side, at Barakau on the 25th of June last; that I reached the ‘top’ on the Depsang plains on the 14th of this month; and that to-day I have emerged on the Central Asian side of the hills into the plains of Eastern Turkestan. en December 1, 1894 Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore w:Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore The Pamirs : being a Narrative of a Year's Expedition on Horseback and on Foot through Kashmir, Western Thibet, Chinese Tartary, and Russian Central Asia w:The Spectator 3,466 https://archive.org/details/sim_spectator-uk_1894-12-01_73_3466/ 753 https://archive.org/details/sim_spectator-uk_1894-12-01_73_3466/page/753/ 1 They were not far now from the “Roof of Asia,” or Depsang Plains, which they reached after crossing the Shyok once more, and making a few more toilsome marches. The approach to this remarkable feature was simply a pass gradually ascending between low sandhills, without a particle of snow, and finally leading on to a desert of undulating slopes, stretching east and west and north, and over the brown rim of which peered the small tops of the highest mountains in the world. en 1895 C. S. Cumberland Sporting Wanderings Sport on the Pamirs and Turkistan Steppes https://archive.org/details/sportonpamirstur00cumbrich/ w:William Blackwood and Sons 5125623 18 https://archive.org/details/sportonpamirstur00cumbrich/page/n35/ The following day I crossed the Depsang plains, 17,000 feet above the level of the sea, and found myself again on the Shyok river, now a very shallow stream. en 1910 Maud Diver Maud Diver The Valley of Decision The Great Amulet https://archive.org/details/greatamulet00divegoog/ New York w:John Lane Company 7035847 368 https://archive.org/details/greatamulet00divegoog/page/n380/ Followed two more weeks of marching,—rougher marching this time,—through the core of the lofty mountains that divide India from Central Asia; across the terrible Depsang Plains, seventeen thousand feet up; and over four passes choked with snow; till they came upon a deserted fort, set in the midst of stark space, and knew that here, indeed, was the limit of human habitation. Next day the work of exploration had begun in earnest. en 1930 w:Owen Lattimore Suget and Karakoram High Tartary https://archive.org/details/hightartary0000latt/ Boston w:Little, Brown, and Company 976634421 345 https://archive.org/details/hightartary0000latt/page/345/ The uplifted western rim of the plateau concealed all the world except a few ice-peaks that lifted above it. One of them was K2, the highest peak in the world bar Mount Everest, but from the Depsang Plains, which are sixteen or seventeen thousand feet, K2 and its companions looked strangely truncated. en 1964 w:Alastair Lamb The Aksai Chin Boundary in 1875 The China-India Border https://archive.org/details/chinaindiaborder0000unse/ w:Oxford University Press 226153454 77 https://archive.org/details/chinaindiaborder0000unse/page/77/ Dr Thomson, who was the first Englishman to visit that pass—an 18,000-foot high obstacle astride one of the ancient routes between India and Central Asia—observed to its south-east what are now called the Depsang Plains, the extreme western edge of the desolate wasteland of the northern Tibetan plateau. en 1988 w:Peter Hillary Rimo: Mountain on the Silk Road https://archive.org/details/rimo00pete/ 0-7089-8632-3 826676339 83 https://archive.org/details/rimo00pete/page/83/ I had to have one last look at the Depsang Plains before we left the next day. No one else seemed particularly enthused, so I set off alone up the long gradual slope behind our cricket pitch. Moving quickly I gained the lip of the plain in forty-five minutes and walked off across its remarkable horizontal surface. So strange a place was it that I felt I could be somewhere as remote and curious as on the moon. en May 03, 2013 Francis Elliott; Leo Lewis Beijing risks clash with India over a road to row of tents w:The Times https://archive.is/qkmOe 26 July 2021 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/beijing-risks-clash-with-india-over-a-road-to-row-of-tents-dtdr0w8kz5h 0140-0460 181820531 Reports that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was constructing a road towards the camp of five tents coincided with the breakdown without resolution of the third “flag meeting” between local commanders from both countries. The two sides are camped within 300 yards of one another in the Depsang plain, a mountainous plateau about 16,000ft above sea level. on en June 25, 2020 Ashok Sharma; Aijaz Hussain Indian army chief visits troops near troubled China border https://web.archive.org/web/20230326010912/https://apnews.com/article/india-china-protocols-army-asia-pacific-77ec720e7f79afc94b8594cf1b6d6be8 26 March 2023 w:AP News The officials said Chinese troops had advanced in the Depsang Plains, also in Ladakh, in violation of border management and jointly agreed patrolling protocols between the two countries.Depsang is a strategically important area close to Daulat Beg Oldie, where India in recent years made an airstrip close to China operational. en March 15, 2022 Sudha Ramachandran No Breakthrough at 15th Round of China-India Talks https://web.archive.org/web/20220315151012/https://thediplomat.com/2022/03/no-breakthrough-at-15th-round-of-china-india-talks/ 15 March 2022 w:The Diplomat Contrary to reports that reaching a settlement on disengagement at Hot Springs will be easy, this is proving to be a stumbling block. Former military officials say that it is an area that is important to both sides.“Low hanging fruit? The geography of the area makes it as important as Depsang Plains, if not more. Recall in 1959 the first clash took place here!” Harcharanjit Singh Panag, a retired lieutenant general in the Indian Army tweeted. en September 9, 2022 Sameer Yasir 2 Years After Deadly Fistfights, India and China Pull Back From Border w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20220909112326/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/09/world/asia/india-china-border.html 09 September 2022 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific Among the remaining contention points between the two armies is an eastern region called the Depsang Plains. Military analysts said that the Chinese Army was not allowing Indian troops to patrol in that area, even though they have done so for decades. While India’s military is already stretched thin, said Saurav Jha, editor in chief of the Delhi Defense Review, it still needs to keep up a permanent patrol to deter China. en Translations plains Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 達普桑平地 Dápǔsāng Píngdì, cmn 德普桑平原 Dépǔsāng Píngyuán Japanese: ja en Places in China Places in India