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Tianshuihai
甜水海 | |
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Military service station | |
 Sign for the Tianshuihai service station | |
  Tianshuihai Location relative to the greater Kashmir region  Tianshuihai Location relative to Trans-Karakoram Tract and Aksai Chin, China  Tianshuihai Location relative to Indian-administered Ladakh | |
| Coordinates: 35°17′49″N 79°33′40″E / 35.297°N 79.561°E | |
| Administering country | China |
| Province | Xinjiang Autonomous Region |
| Prefecture | Hotan |
| Elevation [1] | 4,850 m (15,910 ft) |
Tianshuihai[2][3] (Chinese: 甜水海; pinyin: Tiánshuǐ hǎi), alternately spelled Tien Shui Hai,[4] is a salt water lake in the disputed Aksai Chin region administered by China as part of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region (Hotan County, Hotan Prefecture),[5] which is also claimed by India. The lake's basin is a small plain, formerly known as the Thaldat basin[6] or Mapothang.[7] The lake drains the Thaldat stream that flows from the southwest.[6] It is located east of the Lokzhung Range and northwest of the Aksai Chin Lake.[8]
The Xinjiang–Tibet Highway of the 1950s was laid close to the lake, and an army service station was built on its banks, called the Tianshuihai service station.[9][10] Around 2000, an improved national highway (G219) was laid on a new alignment further to the east, and the Tianshuihai service station was moved to a new location, closer to the new alignment.
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Concise World Atlas (6 ed.). Dorling Kindersley. 2013. p. 150. ISBN 978-1-4654-0227-1 – via Internet Archive.
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Collins World Atlas Illustrated Edition (3rd ed.). HarperCollins. 2007. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-00-723168-3 – via Internet Archive.
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Avouac, Jean-Philippe; Dobremez, Jean-François; Bourjot, Laurence (1996). "Palaeoclimatic interpretation of a topographic profile across middle Holocene regressive shorelines of Longmu Co (Western Tibet)". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 120 (1–2): 93–104. Bibcode:1996PPP...120...93A. doi:10.1016/0031-0182(96)88700-1. ISSN 0031-0182.
based on meteorological data collected at Tien Shui Hai
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- ^ Gazetteer of Kashmir and Ladak, Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1890, p. 814
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地貌气候. 和田县政府门户网站 (in Simplified Chinese). 29 April 2019. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
和田县境内有主要湖泊5处：{...}甜水海；
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"45 Days Ride along Dragon's Backbone: Kashgar to Lhasa". TibetTour.org. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
the last stop in Xinjiang, the tianshuihai [sic] Army Service Station, which is the highest Station in China. It is expensive to stay overnight at the Army Service Station, so we suggest that you camp nearby.
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Tibet. Lonely Planet (7 ed.). February 2008. p. 2,339 – via Internet Archive.
Tianshuihai{...}From here the road turns south, and climbs to the Khitai Pass (kilometre marker 535; 5150m), past the military base of Tianshuihai.