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Ratti Gali Lake
Ratti Gali Lake is an alpine glacial lake which is located in Neelam Valley, Neelum Valley, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan . The lake is located at an altitude of . The lake is fed by the surrounding glacier waters of the mountains. Geography and location Ratti Gali Lake is situated in the Neelum Valley, which is part of the greater Himalayan mountain range. The lake is fed by the glacial melt from the surrounding peaks, ensuring its crystal-clear blue waters remain cold throughout the year. The region is characterized by its rugged terrain, with steep cliffs and dense forests. Access and trekking Access to Ratti Gali Lake typically involves a trek from the nearest village, Dowarian, which is located approximately from the district headquarters of Athmuqam. From Dowarian, visitors embark on a 19-kilometer journey that can be traversed on foot or by hiring a jeep, depending on the road conditions and weather. The trek to Ratti Gali Lake is a major attraction for adventure seekers, o ...
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Neelam Valley, Azad Kashmir
Neelum (spelt also ''Neelam''; ) is a district of Pakistan-administered territory of Azad Kashmir, in the disputed Kashmir region.The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by the tertiary sources (a) through (e), reflecting due weight in the coverage. Although "controlled" and "held" are also applied neutrally to the names of the disputants or to the regions administered by them, as evidenced in sources (h) through (i) below, "held" is also considered politicized usage, as is the term "occupied," (see (j) below). (a) (subscription required) Quote: "Kashmir, region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent ... has been the subject of dispute between India and Pakistan since the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. The northern and western portions are administered by Pakistan and comprise three areas: Azad Kashmir, Gilgit, and Baltistan, the last two being part of a territory called th ...
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Glacial Lake
A glacial lake is a body of water with origins from glacier activity. They are formed when a glacier erodes the land and then melts, filling the depression created by the glacier. Formation Near the end of the last glacial period, roughly 10,000 years ago, glaciers began to retreat. A retreating glacier often left behind large deposits of ice in hollows between drumlins or hills. As the ice age ended, these melted to create lakes. These lakes are often surrounded by drumlins, along with other evidence of the glacier such as moraines, eskers and erosional features such as glacial striations, striations and chatter marks. These lakes are clearly visible in aerial photos of landforms in regions that were glaciated during the last ice age. The formation and characteristics of glacial lakes vary between location and can be classified into glacial erosion lake, ice-blocked lake, moraine-dammed lake, other glacial lake, supraglacial lake, and subglacial lake. Glacial lakes and chan ...
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Dowarian
Dowarian (Urdu: دواریاں) is a village in Neelum Valley, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. It is located from Muzaffarabad and from Athmuqam on the bank of Neelum River at the altitude of . Dowarian is accessible by Neelum road from Muzaffarabad. A rest house of AJK Tourism and Archeology Department is located here for tourists to stay. It is the base camp to Ratti Gali Lake. Dowarian is located at the merger of river Neelam and Ratti Gali water stream. There are tourism and forest rest houses. The village is full of spring waters, high green mountains and plants. Walnuts, mulberries, Cherries and apples are produced in the village. A secondary school was established in 1972 and it was promoted to higher secondary in 2016, and there are multiple other schools engaged in the provision of education to the masses. Girls High School Dowarian was destroyed in the flood of 2010 and has not been re-constructed yet. The village also has a Civil Dispensary run by the government of AJK, Pa ...
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Neelam Valley
Neelum (spelt also ''Neelam''; ) is a district of Pakistan-administered territory of Azad Kashmir, in the disputed Kashmir region.The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by the tertiary sources (a) through (e), reflecting due weight in the coverage. Although "controlled" and "held" are also applied neutrally to the names of the disputants or to the regions administered by them, as evidenced in sources (h) through (i) below, "held" is also considered politicized usage, as is the term "occupied," (see (j) below). (a) (subscription required) Quote: "Kashmir, region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent ... has been the subject of dispute between India and Pakistan since the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. The northern and western portions are administered by Pakistan and comprise three areas: Azad Kashmir, Gilgit, and Baltistan, the last two being part of a territory called t ...
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Glacial Lake
A glacial lake is a body of water with origins from glacier activity. They are formed when a glacier erodes the land and then melts, filling the depression created by the glacier. Formation Near the end of the last glacial period, roughly 10,000 years ago, glaciers began to retreat. A retreating glacier often left behind large deposits of ice in hollows between drumlins or hills. As the ice age ended, these melted to create lakes. These lakes are often surrounded by drumlins, along with other evidence of the glacier such as moraines, eskers and erosional features such as glacial striations, striations and chatter marks. These lakes are clearly visible in aerial photos of landforms in regions that were glaciated during the last ice age. The formation and characteristics of glacial lakes vary between location and can be classified into glacial erosion lake, ice-blocked lake, moraine-dammed lake, other glacial lake, supraglacial lake, and subglacial lake. Glacial lakes and chan ...
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Azad Kashmir
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (), abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir ( ), is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entitySee: * * * and constituting the western portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947.The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by the tertiary sources (a) through (e), reflecting due weight in the coverage. Although "controlled" and "held" are also applied neutrally to the names of the disputants or to the regions administered by them, as evidenced in sources (h) through (i) below, "held" is also considered politicized usage, as is the term "occupied" (see (j) below). On its eastern side, Azad Kashmir is separated from the Indian–administered territory of Jammu and Kashmir by the Line of Control (LoC), which serves as the '' de facto'' bo ...
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Dawn (newspaper)
''Dawn'' is a Pakistani English language, English-language newspaper that was launched in British Raj, British India by Muhammad Ali Jinnah in 1941. It is the largest English newspaper in Pakistan, and is widely considered the country's newspaper of record. ''Dawn'' is the flagship publication of the Dawn Media Group, which also owns local radio station ''CityFM89'' as well as the marketing and media magazine ''Aurora''. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's founding father, launched the newspaper in Delhi on 26 October 1941, with the goal of establishing it as a mouthpiece for the All-India Muslim League. The first issue was printed at Latifi Press on 12 October 1942. Based in Karachi, it also maintains offices in Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta and the capital city of Islamabad, in addition to having correspondents abroad. , it has a weekday circulation of over 109,000. The newspaper's current chief editor is Zaffar Abbas. History ''Dawn'' began as a weekly publication, based in New Delh ...
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Chitta Katha Lake
Chitta Katha Lake is an alpine lake in Shounter Valley, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, at an elevation of . It is sacred for Hindus, who consider it an abode of Shiva. See also * Ratti Gali Lake Ratti Gali Lake is an alpine glacial lake which is located in Neelam Valley, Neelum Valley, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan . The lake is located at an altitude of . The lake is fed by the surrounding glacier waters of the mountains. Geography and locat ... * Saral Lake References Lakes of Azad Kashmirbr>Places to Visit in Neelum Valley
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Saral Lake
Saral Lake is on border of Neelam, Azad Kashmir and the Kaghan Valley in Pakistan at an altitude of . The lake is accessible from Sharda by a track though Gumot National Park. See also * Chitta Katha Lake *Ratti Gali Lake Ratti Gali Lake is an alpine glacial lake which is located in Neelam Valley, Neelum Valley, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan . The lake is located at an altitude of . The lake is fed by the surrounding glacier waters of the mountains. Geography and locat ... * List of lakes of Pakistan References Lakes of Azad Kashmir Glacial lakes {{Pakistan-geo-stub ...
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