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0374 Southern Tibet : vol.7
Southern Tibet : vol.7 / Page 374 (Grayscale High Resolution Image)

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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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We have seen that the case was exactly the same with Transhimalaya, although
the first indication of its existence appears incomparably later on European maps,
namely on D'ANVILLE'S. And it is not yet forty years ago since SAUNDERS
represented as one single range, that which now has proved to consist of a whole
system of different ranges, every one of them offering a hard task of exploring
work for future travellers.

Before we leave Godwin-Austen's first important contribution to the knowledge
of the Kara-korum, we should remember that he has illustrated his paper with a
brilliant Sketch Map of the Glaciers of the Mustakh Range (Trans-Indus), and
Valley of Skardo &c.,¹ which forms a gigantic step forwards, a fundamental docu-
ment which never would lose its importance, but only be improved in detail and
completeness. Between the head of his Nobundi Sobundi glacier and K 2 he has the
»Karakoram Range», as if this name only belonged to this part of the Mustakh
Range. North of the Kara-korum Range the map shows a terra incognita, and
there still, after 60 years, are regions in this world of inaccessible and majestic
mountains covered with snow and ice, that never have been seen by Europeans.