Tianshuihai

Tianshuihai
甜水海
Military service station
Sign for the Tianshuihai service station
Sign for the Tianshuihai service station
Tianshuihai is located in Kashmir
Tianshuihai
Tianshuihai
Location relative to the greater Kashmir region
Tianshuihai is located in Trans-Karakoram Tract and Aksai Chin
Tianshuihai
Tianshuihai
Location relative to Trans-Karakoram Tract and Aksai Chin, China
Tianshuihai is located in Ladakh
Tianshuihai
Tianshuihai
Location relative to Indian-administered Ladakh
Coordinates: 35°17′49″N 79°33′40″E / 35.297°N 79.561°E / 35.297; 79.561
Administering countryChina
ProvinceXinjiang Autonomous Region
PrefectureHotan
Elevation
[1]
4,850 m (15,910 ft)

Tianshuihai[2][3] (Chinese: 甜水海; pinyin: Tiánshuǐ hǎi), alternately spelled Tien Shui Hai,[4] is a salt water lake in the disputed Aksai Chin region administered by China as part of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region (Hotan County, Hotan Prefecture),[5] which is also claimed by India. The lake's basin is a small plain, formerly known as the Thaldat basin[6] or Mapothang.[7] The lake drains the Thaldat stream that flows from the southwest.[6] It is located east of the Lokzhung Range and northwest of the Aksai Chin Lake.[8]

The Xinjiang–Tibet Highway of the 1950s was laid close to the lake, and an army service station was built on its banks, called the Tianshuihai service station.[9][10] Around 2000, an improved national highway (G219) was laid on a new alignment further to the east, and the Tianshuihai service station was moved to a new location, closer to the new alignment.

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  2. ^ Concise World Atlas (6 ed.). Dorling Kindersley. 2013. p. 150. ISBN 978-1-4654-0227-1 – via Internet Archive. Tianshuihai
  3. ^ Collins World Atlas Illustrated Edition (3rd ed.). HarperCollins. 2007. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-00-723168-3 – via Internet Archive. Tianshuihai
  4. ^ Avouac, Jean-Philippe; Dobremez, Jean-François; Bourjot, Laurence (1996). "Palaeoclimatic interpretation of a topographic profile across middle Holocene regressive shorelines of Longmu Co (Western Tibet)". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 120 (1–2): 93–104. Bibcode:1996PPP...120...93A. doi:10.1016/0031-0182(96)88700-1. ISSN 0031-0182. based on meteorological data collected at Tien Shui Hai
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  6. ^ a b Norin 1946, pp. 28–29.
  7. ^ Gazetteer of Kashmir and Ladak, Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1890, p. 814
  8. ^ 地貌气候. 和田县政府门户网站 (in Simplified Chinese). 29 April 2019. Retrieved 23 December 2019. 和田县境内有主要湖泊5处：{...}甜水海；[dead link]
  9. ^ "45 Days Ride along Dragon's Backbone: Kashgar to Lhasa". TibetTour.org. Retrieved 30 December 2019. the last stop in Xinjiang, the tianshuihai [sic] Army Service Station, which is the highest Station in China. It is expensive to stay overnight at the Army Service Station, so we suggest that you camp nearby.
  10. ^ Tibet. Lonely Planet (7 ed.). February 2008. p. 2,339 – via Internet Archive. Tianshuihai{...}From here the road turns south, and climbs to the Khitai Pass (kilometre marker 535; 5150m), past the military base of Tianshuihai.