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Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2 |
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Lake　Kara Kul (North End). |
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This remarkable aridity is perhaps the most emphatic demonstration of
Central Asia's isolation from moisture. In the Pamir we have a region whose
depressions lie from 13,000 to 15,000 feet above the ocean, and whose mountains
rise to from 18,000 to 24,000 feet in height. Similar latitudes elsewhere record
a snow-line of 10,000 feet elevation, but now we are dealing with an interior region
surrounded by the greatest mountains and deserts of the world. It is, therefore,
logical to find the snow-line at 16,000 feet with Sven Hedin's report of less than
1-inch precipitation over Kara Kul, the salt lake of its widest basin. The Southern
Pamir is less arid, as it receives about all the precipitation of southern winds
left after the Hindu-kush and Karakoram have had their share.
THE BASIN OF GREAT KARA KUL.
The basin of Great Kara Kul was studied on two expeditions; the first in
1903, under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the second
in 1904, an independent exploration, from which much of my data on other regions
will be drawn. And though the basin has been discussed in my first year's report
some repetition is important for the sake of correlation.
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