Pangong Tso

Proper noun

Pangong Tso

1. An endorheic lake on the border between Leh district, Ladakh, India and Rutog County, Tibet autonomous region, China, with a portion in the disputed Aksai Chin.
   • The Pangong Tso (lake) is about two and a half miles distant from the low ridge of the Surtokh La, or more properly speaking, its natural bar or bund, but the level of the old lake bed extends up to within a very short distance of the pass. A rise of 150 feet in the waters of the present lake would...1868 [1866 June 16], H. H. Godwin-Austen, “Notes on the PANGONG LAKE district of LADAKH, from journal made in 1863”, in Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal, page 87
   • From this, 14,800 feet, the slope was easy, and, while descending, light snow fell for about half an hour. Ere long I got my first glimpse of the Pangong Tso, with its great blue bosom everywhere indented by spurs of the lofty mountains round it.1870 [1869 July 8], J. L. Stewart, “Notes of a Botanical Tour in Ladak or Western Tibet”, in Transactions of the Botanical Society, volume X, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 224