{"id":321724,"date":"2024-12-31T11:55:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T06:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=321724"},"modified":"2024-12-31T15:32:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T10:02:46","slug":"pangong-tso-lake-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pangong-tso-lake-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pangong Tso lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The Indian Army has installed a statue of the Maratha warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj on the banks of Pangong Tso Lake.<\/p>\n<h2>About Pangong Tso lake<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_321732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-321732\" style=\"width: 367px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-321732\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Pangong-Tso-lake.png?resize=367%2C371&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pangong Tso lake\" width=\"367\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Pangong-Tso-lake.png?w=541&amp;ssl=1 541w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Pangong-Tso-lake.png?resize=297%2C300&amp;ssl=1 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-321732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source- BBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <em>endorheic lake<\/em> (landlocked) located in <em>eastern Ladakh<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>It derives its name from the Tibetan word, \u201cPangong Tso\u201d, which means \u201chigh grassland lake&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>It lies <em>partly in India\u2019s Ladakh region<\/em> and <em>partly in Tibet<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>It is the <em>world&#8217;s highest saltwater lake<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>Karakoram Mountain range<\/em> which crosses Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and India ends at the north bank of Pangong Tso.<\/li>\n<li>Pangong Tso is also known to change colors, appearing blue, green and red at different times of a day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Importance of the lake<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The importance of the lake is due to the fact that it lies in the path of the Chushul approach of China.\n<ul>\n<li>China uses <em>Chushul valley<\/em> for performing offensive activities into Indian-held territory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The legendary 19th century <em>Dogra general Zorawar Singh<\/em> is said to have trained his soldiers and horses on the frozen Pangong lake before invading Tibet.<\/li>\n<li>LAC(Line of Actual Control) mostly passes on the land, but Pangong Tso is a unique case where it passes through the water as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Indian Army has installed a statue of the Maratha warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj on the banks of Pangong Tso Lake. About Pangong Tso lake It is an endorheic lake (landlocked) located in eastern Ladakh. It derives its name from the Tibetan word, \u201cPangong Tso\u201d, which means \u201chigh grassland lake&#8221;. It lies partly in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pangong-tso-lake-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pangong Tso lake<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-321724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}