Lop Nur

Lop Nur or Lop Nor or Lop Desert is a desert with the formerly lake Lop Nur in the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, China.

Satellite pictures

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  Satellite picture of the Desert of Lop with the Basin of the formerly sea Lop Nur. In the left Kuruktagh, in the right Astintagh.

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  China, Xinjiang, desert Lop Nur. Satellite picture of the Helix of the former sea Lop Nur.

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  China, Xinjiang, desert Lop Nur. Satellite picture of the Basin of the formerly sea Lop Nur in the Desert of Lop Nur. In the foreground Kuruktagh, in the background Kumtagh and Astintagh.

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  China, Xinjiang, desert Lop Nur. Satellite picture of the potash fertilizer production plant in the formerly sea Lop Nur on the date 8 July 2003.

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  China, Xinjiang, desert Lop Nur. Satellite picture of the potash fertilizer production plant in the formerly sea Lop Nur on the date 12 October 2009.

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  Satellite picture of the Lop Desert with the Basin of the formerly sea Lop Nur. You see the potash fertilizer production plant on the date 12 October 2009.

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  China, Xinjiang, desert Lop Nur. Satellite picture of the Basin of the formerly sea Lop Nur in the Desert of Lop. In the foreground Kuruktagh, in the background Kumtagh and Astintagh. A duststorm is blowing to the west over the Desert of Lop. Two lakes appear in a break in the clouds covering the Plateau of Astintagh. Visible are elongated Ayakkum Hu Lake south-southwest of Lop Nur and small blue-green Gas Hu Lake.

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  Satellite Image of the "Big Ear" in Lop Nur (left) and of the Kumtag Desert (middle) and Astintag (right) in Xinjiang.

Yandang at the Yandang Shan Geopark

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Necropolis

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  Christoph Baumer at the Bronze Age graveyard Gumugo 2009.jpg

History

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  Europoid Mask, Lop Nur, China, 2000-1000 BCE

Maps

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  Map of the Lop Nur region, Xinjiang, China mainly after A. Herrmann by Folke Bergman 1935. Translations: Ruiner=ruin. Gammalt vakttorn=watch-tower of the Great Wall of China. Grovar=grave. Bulak=well. Ördeks nekropol=cemetery founded by Ördek; new name: Xiaohe Tombs. Nya Lop-nor=Lop Nur sea in the time 1921 – 1971.

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  Map of eastern Xinjiang with prehistoric sites and the courses of the Silk Roads by Folke Bergman 1939.

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  A very scarce, c. 1706, map of Asia issued by Daniel de La Feuille (1640-1709).