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Depsang Plains

/dɛp.sɑŋ pleɪnz/

Depsang Plains proper noun: a gravelly plain in eastern Ladakh and the disputed Aksai Chin.

Proper noun

Depsang Plains

  1. A gravelly plain in eastern Ladakh and the disputed Aksai Chin.
    • 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.1868 [1866 April 22], W. H. Johnson, “Report on his Journey to Ilchí, the Capital of Khotan, in Chinese Tartary.”, in The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London, volume XXXVII, London...
    • 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.1876 [1874 September 27], J. Scully, “A Contribution to the Ornithology of Eastern Turkestan”, in Allan Hume, editor, Stray Feathers: A Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies, volume...

Examples of Depsang Plains in a sentence

  • 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.1894 December 1, Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore, “The Pamirs : being a Narrative of a Year's Expedition on Horseback and on Foot...
  • 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.1895, C. S. Cumberland, “Sporting Wanderings”, in Sport on the Pamirs and Turkistan Steppes, William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 18:
  • 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.1930, Owen Lattimore, “Suget and Karakoram”, in High Tartary, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 345:
  • I had to have one last look at the Depsang Plains before we left the next day.1988, Peter Hillary, Rimo: Mountain on the Silk Road, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 83:

Questions about Depsang Plains

What does Depsang Plains mean?
Depsang Plains means a gravelly plain in eastern Ladakh and the disputed Aksai Chin.
How do you use Depsang Plains in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is Depsang Plains?
Depsang Plains is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Depsang Plains?
Depsang Plains is pronounced /dɛp.sɑŋ pleɪnz/.

Words near Depsang Plains in the dictionary

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  5. deps.
  6. Depsang Plains
  7. depseudonymization
  8. depseudonymize
  9. depseudonymized
  10. depsi-
  11. depside

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