Phursook Bay () is a bay in the
Pangong Tso
Pangong Tso or Pangong Lake (; zh, s=班公错, p=Bān gōng cuò; ) is an endorheic lake spanning eastern Ladakh and Ngari Prefecture, West Tibet situated at an elevation of . It is long and divided into five sublakes, called ''Pangong Tso' ...
that is said to have formed the border between
Ladakh
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and Tibet's
Rutog County
Rutog County
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during the
British Raj
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. The present day
Line of Actual Control
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between China and India runs near the same location and remains fiercely contested.
Geography
The Phursook Bay was described by the British surveyor
H. H. Godwin-Austen in 1867 in his notes on the Pangong Lake district. Traversing the southern shore of the lake, he arrived at the plain of
Thakung, where the
Chushul River joins the lake, found a bay at its southeastern corner, then a low spur abutting on the lake and then another large bay. It is called Phursook and is said to form the boundary between the princely state of
Jammu and Kashmir and the district of
Rudok. His description continued:
Henry Strachey had traversed the same region earlier in 1847 as a boundary commissioner for Kashmir.
[
: "A very good idea of its alignment was derived by Strachey and Cunningham in 1846-1848"
]
He drew the frontier between Kashmir and Rudok at the same location. After crossing the lake at this location, his frontier line hugged the northern shore of the lake and ran east until the
Khurnak Plain. The narrow channel at the
Khurnak Plain was included entirely within Tibet. (Maps 1 and 2)
Historical maps
File:1851 map of Pangong Lake by Strachey.jpg, Map1: Boundary between Kashmir and Rudok shown as a faint orange colour wash in the map of Henry Strachey (1851)
File:Pangong-Tso-from-Edward-Weller-map-1863.jpg, Map 2: The frontier depicted in a map by Edward Weller (1863)
File:Pangong-and-Spanggur-US-Army-map-1954.jpg, Map 3: China-India border after the Kashmir Survey (AMS AMS or Ams may refer to:
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, 1954)
File:Ladakh LAC Landmarks (cropped).jpg, Map 4: The Line of Actual Control between China and India ( DMA, 1992)
Notes
References
Bibliography
* {{citation , last=Godwin-Austen , first=H. H. , title=Notes on the Pangong Lake District of Ladakh, from a Journal made during a Survey in 1863 , journal=The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lwMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA351 , year=1867 , volume=37 , publisher=J. Murray , location=London , pages=343–363 , doi=10.2307/1798534 , jstor=1798534 , ref={{sfnref, Godwin-Austen, Notes on the Pangong Lake District, 1867, url-access=subscription
Pangong Lake
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