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[edit]
Satellite picture of the Desert of Lop with the Basin of the formerly sea Lop Nur. In the left Kuruktagh, in the right Astintagh.
China, Xinjiang, desert Lop Nur. Satellite picture of the Helix of the former sea Lop Nur.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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[edit]
Necropolis[edit]
Christoph Baumer at the Bronze Age graveyard Gumugo 2009.jpg
History[edit]
Europoid Mask, Lop Nur, China, 2000-1000 BCE
Maps[edit]
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.
Map of eastern Xinjiang with prehistoric sites and the courses of the Silk Roads by Folke Bergman 1939.
A very scarce, c. 1706, map of Asia issued by Daniel de La Feuille (1640-1709).
