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	Balkash - LoveToKnow 1911
		BALKASH, or Balkhash (called by the Kirghiz Ak-denghiz or Ala-denghiz and by the Chinese Si-hai), a lake of Asiatic Russia, in the Kirghiz steppes, between the governments of Semipalatinsk and Semiryechensk, in 45° to 47° N. and 73° 30' to 79° E., about 600 m.
		The chief feeder of the lake is the Ili, which rises in the Khantengri group of the Tian-shan Mountains.
		The fauna of the lake and of its tributaries - explored by Nikolsky - is more akin to the fauna of the rivers of the Tarim basin than to that of the Aral; it also does not contain the common frog.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Balkash (358 words)

	Semiryechensk - LoveToKnow 1911
		The remainder of the province consists of a fertile steppe in the north-east (Sergiopol), and vast uninhabitable sand-steppes on the south of Lake Balkash.
		In the Balkash steppes the winter is very cold; the lake freezes every year, and the thermometer falls to 13° F. In the Ala-kul steppes the winds blow away the snow.
		Lake Balkash, or Denghiz, Lake Ala-kul (which was connected with Balkash in the post-Pliocene period, but now stands some hundred feet higher, and is connected by a chain of smaller lakes with Sissyk-kul), Lake Issyk-kul and the alpine lakes of Son-kul and Chatyr-kul are the principal sheets of water.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Semiryechensk (699 words)

	AllRefer.com - Balkash, lake, Kazakhstan (CIS And Baltic Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		The lake, which has an average depth of 20 ft (6 m), stretches from the Kazakh Hills in the northeast to desert steppes in the southwest.
		The eastern half of the lake is saline; the western half, separated from the eastern section by a sandbar and fed by the Ili River, is fresh.
		Lake Balkash, which has no outlet, is slowly shrinking from evaporation.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BalkshLak.html (243 words)

	Lake Balkhash Summary
		Lake Balkash is a large lake located in southeast Kazakhstan at 342 meters (1,122 feet) above sea level and covering an area of 17,275 square kilometers (6,670 square miles).
		Lake Balkhash (Kazakh: Balqash Köli) is a large lake in southeastern Kazakhstan, the second largest in Central Asia after the Aral Sea.
		The waters of the Ili River and of Lake Balkhash are of vital economic importance to Kazakhstan.
	www.bookrags.com /Lake_Balkhash (703 words)

	Lake Baikal, Russia
		Lake Baikal, or "Sacred Sea," is located in southeastern Siberia, in the Republic of Buryatia and the Irkutsk region, Russia.
		The deepest waters in the lake are oxygenated by thermal springs.
		Thermal vents in the depths of the lake are evidence of ongoing tectonic activity in the area.
	www.livinglakes.org /baikal (1189 words)

	Lake Balkhash
		Lake Balkhash, in Kazakhstan, is the largest moderately saline lake of Central Asia.
		North of Lake Balkhash are the southern semi-arid Kazakh Uplands, and south, the Saryesik-Atryan Desert.
		The gradual degradation of the lake ecosystems is being hastened by the construction of hydroelectric installations in China to the southeast.
	www.grid.unep.ch /activities/sustainable/balkhash/index.php (909 words)

	BALKASH, or BALKHASH (... - Online Information article about BALKASH, or BALKHASH (...
		BALKASH, or BALKHASH (called by the Kirghiz Ak-denghiz or Ala-denghiz and by the Chinese Si-hai)
		BASIN, or BASON (the older form bacin is found in many of the Romanic languages, from the Late Lat.
		Balkash stood formerly in communication through lakes Ebi-nor and Ayar (Telli-nor) with the lake that formerly filled the Lukchun depression (in 891° E. long.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BAI_BAR/BALKASH_or_BALKHASH_called_by_t.html (525 words)

	TRIP REPORTS - KAZAKHSTAN
		Lake Sasakol was surveyed for Dalmatian pelicans by visiting one of two known colonies in the delta of the River Tentek which flows into the lake on 21 June 1998.
		Lake Alakol was surveyed for breeding relict gulls and Dalmatian pelicans between 18 and 20 June 1998 by visiting all islands where the species were known to have bred or potentially could breed.
		A resurvey of islands in Lake Alakol for breeding relict gulls in 1999 and 2000.
	www.osme.org /osmetrip/kaztrip5.html (6007 words)

	Female Travel Advice :: Tuk tuk diary: Lake Balkash
		Bangkok to Brighton by tuk tuk: Lake Balkash
		Balkash is not a particularly attractive town and it is towered over by large industrial chimneys, which constantly belch out acidic smoke.
		We had planned to explore the nicer parts of the lake today, but instead spent the afternoon attending to TT and her newly-acquired noise.
	www.gapyear.com /gaplasses/tuk_tuk_diary_lake_balkash.html (1922 words)

	LAKE BALKHASH
		he area and water volume of the lake vary considerably in due course depending on the large amplitude of long-term and secular fluctuations of its water level.
		The western part of the lake has fresh or slightly salty water (0.5% 1.5%) depending on the secular fluctuation of its water level, while the eastern part is characterized by rather high concentration of dissolved solids (up to 7%).
		The water resources of the lake and its tributary rivers are used for irrigation, municipal and industrial water supply (including the supply for the Balkhash Copper Melting Plant).
	www.ilec.or.jp /database/asi/asi-54.html (822 words)

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		The phenomenon is shown in a series of images from the 1960s to the present with the population rise charted as a rapid spreading area of red zones.
		The infestation of Lake Victoria by the invasive, alien weed known as water hyacinth is also spotlighted in a satellite image of 1995.
		Asia's second largest lake after the Aral Sea, Balkash is crucial for supply water to farmers, towns and cities and industry.
	www.mectat.com.lb /metopics/atlas/atlas.htm (2900 words)

	SEMIRYECHENSK - Online Information article about SEMIRYECHENSK
		Balkash and parts of the Tian-shan Mountains around Lake Issyk-kul.
		South of the lake two ranges of the Tian-shan, separated by the valley of the Naryn, stretch in the same direction, lifting up their icy peaks to 16,000 and 18,000 ft.; while westwards from the lake the precipitous slopes of the See also:
		Lake Balkash, or Denghiz, Lake Ala-kul (which was connected with Balkash in the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SCY_SHA/SEMIRYECHENSK.html (930 words)

	LakeNet - Lakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lake Balkhash, although slightly less saline than the conventional limit, is usually considered a saline lake.
		The drainage area of Lake Balkash and the Aral Sea are geographically separate, but the waterbodies shared many common species until massive local extinctions in the Aral.
		Since the early 1900's, Lake Balkhash fish stocks have been intensively manipulated by the transfer of additioanl fish species from elsewhere in what was previously the Soviet Union.
	www.worldlakes.org /lakedetails.asp?lakeid=8416 (229 words)

	Amazon.com: "Lake Balkash": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lake Balkash, a vast, marsh-bordered arc of halfsaline water on the Kazak Steppe, is hardly deeper than a puddle, while mountain-ringed Lake...
		Lake Balkash, a vast, marsh-bordered arc of half-saline Central Asian and Indian water on the Kazakh Steppe, is hardly deeper than a...
		Lake Balkash, the Aral and Caspian seas, with innumer- able other small depressions, are in the desiccated bed of this late oceanic...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Lake-Balkash (483 words)

	The Caspian Information Centre
		In addition, Lake Balkash is seriously polluted, and the water in Caspian Sea is rising, covering old well-heads from the Soviet period, and thus contaminating the lake.
		Before water was taken from the rivers that flow into it, the Aral Sea was the fourth largest lake in the world, approximate in size to Lake Huron.
		The area of the lake shrank by 45 per cent, with the result that fishing villages were now many miles from the water's edge.
	www.caspianinfo.org /story.php?id=3 (1230 words)

	Kazakhstan: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is largely lowland in the north and west (W Siberian, Caspian, and Turan lowlands), hilly in the center (Kazakh Hills), and mountainous in the south and east (Tian Shan and Altai ranges).
		Kazakhstan is a region of inland drainage; the Syr Darya, the Ili, the Chu, and other rivers drain into the Aral Sea and Lake Balkash.
		The lake, which has an average depth of 20 ft (6 m), stretches from the Kazakh Hills in the northeast to...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/kazakhstan.jsp (2486 words)

	Atkinson: The Upper and Lower Amoor
		The lands north of Lake Balkash were the territory of the Kirghis Middle Horde; the lands south of Lake Balkash (which interestingly enough, was also called Lake Tengris) along boundaries long since defined by custom and war, were the territory of the Great Horde.
		Almost immediately after leaving the tombs we got into a morass, which was probably the bed of a shallow lake from which the water had been evaporated, leaving incrustations of salt on the grass and mud.
		Salt lakes are numerous, and appear beautiful with their fringes of salsola, but these afford neither food nor drink for man or beast.
	www.iras.ucalgary.ca /~volk/sylvia/Atkinson.htm (15279 words)

	Chaghataite Khanate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Chaghataite Khanate flourished again during the 15th century, when it took Tashkent (1484), although by then its Mongol component had been diluted and it was a mainly Turkic empire with Mongol overlords, for the name of Jenghiz Khan still drummed legitimacy.
		When the Oirats were driven by the Khalkas or eastern Mongols out of Kobdo (east of Lake Balkash), a branch of the Oirats held out in the Tarbagatai Range (south-east of Balkash).
		The territories of the Oirats west of Mongolia became the khanate of Junggar.
	www.worldhistoryplus.com /history/c/Chaghataite_khanate.htm (1109 words)

	Chagatai Khanate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 15th and 16th centuries, the area of the Chagatai Khanate came under the control of the Sheibanids (Shibanids or Shaybanids), a branch of the Golden Horde, who were called Uzbeks.
		Kashgaria was still ruled by descendants of the Moghol side of the Chaghataites until 1678 when a Sufi muslim cleric (a Khoja) took the throne with the help of the Oirat (Dzungar) Mongols.
		When the Oirats were driven by the Khalkhas or eastern Mongols out of Kobdo (east of Lake Balkash), a branch of the Oirats held out in the Tarbagatai Range (south-east of Balkash).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chagatai_Khanate (1557 words)

	Bird watching trip report - Kazakhstan - surfbirds.com
		Karazhar is situated beside one of the main lakes and birds seen within a 5 minute radius of the cabin ("garden birds") included golden oriole, great reed, paddyfield and barred warblers, common rosefinch, citrine wagtail, bluethroat, pied wheatear and quail.
		The ponds and lakes here held a variety of waterfowl, including 2 drake white-headed ducks, fl-necked grebes and the usual duck species; long-legged buzzard and fl kites were overhead and calandra larks, rollers and bee-eaters were common.
		The largest lake in the area (Sardylak, I think) produced a surprise in the shape of what looked like a substantial colony of dalmatian pelicans - comfortably 500 birds on the lake as a whole.
	www.surfbirds.com /mb/trips/kazak-ga-0104.html (4572 words)

	The Berzin Archives - Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in West Turkistan
		[5] Around Lake Issyk Kul, some "mani" stones have been found underwater near Przhevalsk and along the southern shore at Tamga Gorge, as well as at the Julku and Barskaon Passes to the south and Issykata Pass to the north of the lake.
		Along the Irtysh River, north of Lake Balkhash near the Kazakh/Russian border, there was a great Buddhist monastery in Semipalatinsk and the remains of another have been found at Ablaiket near Ust Kamenogorsk.
		To the east of Almaty, along the northern face of the Zailisky Ala Tau Mountains that separate Kazakhstan from Lake Issyk Kul, there were Buddhist monasteries all the way to the present Chinese border, with remains at Talgar, near Almaty, and at Sumbe in the Narynkol region on the border.
	www.berzinarchives.com /islam/hist_sketch_west_turkistan.html (943 words)

	Balkash - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		86,609), in Kazakhstan, on the north shore of Lake Balkash.
		A railroad terminus and port, it has fish processing and copper-smelting industries.
		Balkash was founded as Bertys in 1929 and was renamed in 1936.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-BalkshKaz.html (227 words)

	So, was there really a Global Flood? - TheologyWeb Campus
		Lake Titicaca in South America more than 3km up in the Andes but contains sea life such as seahorses; even the Dead Sea is given as a possibility.
		The past elevation of Lake Titicaca prior to elevation of the Andes is not known to me, but it should be taken into consideration.
		They also claim that Lake Bonneville used to be a freshwater lake more than 10,000 years ago (ref. MS Encarta Encyclopedia '97).
	www.theologyweb.com /forum/showthread.php?t=32152 (5336 words)

	Semirechie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Two ranges of the former, the Trans-Ili Ala-tau and the Terskey Ala-tau, stretch along the north shore of Lake Issyk-kul, both ranging from 10,000 to 15,000 ft. and both partially snow-clad.
		Southwards from the last-named, however, at the foot of the mountains and at the entrance to the valleys, there are rich areas of fertile land, which in the early 20th century were being rapidly colonized by Russian immigrants, who also penetrated into the Tian-shan, to the east of Lake Issyk-kul.
		Population: The population was estimated in 1906 as 1,080,700.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Semirechye (1040 words)

	‘ONE PLANET MANY PEOPLE’ ATLAS LAUNCHED TO MARK WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2005
		, Balkash is crucial for supply water to farmers, towns and cities and industry. It also supports an important fishery. But excessive water use is causing the lake to dry up and it may disappear altogether unless the trend is reversed.
		In the 1950s it was home to just over 24,000 people. Today, the population tops 1 million, not including tourists, and may double by 2015. The images reveal how the city has spread in all directions displacing the few vegetated lands and replacing natural desert with housing and irrigated golf courses.
		Lake Meade, formed by the Hoover Dam, dropped 18 meters from 2000 to 2003. Despite the regions third worst drought in recent history, new golf courses continue to be developed.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2005/unep290.doc.htm (2514 words)

	MONGOLIAN HISTORY
		They inhabited a great arc of land extending generally from the Korean Peninsula in the east, across the northern tier of China to the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and to the Pamir Mountains and Lake Balkash in the west.
		The Xiongnu temporarily abandoned their interest in China and turned their attention westward to the region of the Altai Mountains and Lake Balkash, inhabited by the Yuezhi (Yeh-chih in Wade-Giles), an Indo-European-speaking nomadic people who had relocated from China's present-day Gansu Province as a result of their earlier defeat by the Xiongnu.
		At the same time, their allies and nominal vassals, the Uighurs, conquered much of western and northern Mongolia until, by the middle of the eighth century, the Uighur seminomadic empire extended from Lake Balkash to Lake Baykal.
	aduuchin.tripod.com /mon/id9.html (2153 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Kazakh's biggest lake under threat
		A leading Kazakh environmentalist has warned that the country's biggest lake is dying because its water resources are being misused.
		Mels Eleusizov, of the Nature Party, told a press conference in the southern capital Almaty today that the surface area of Lake Balkash, in the south west of the country, had shrunk by two thousand square kilometres in the past twenty years.
		Lake Balkaksh is unique in ecological terms because it is comprised of half salt water and half fresh water.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/861929.stm (182 words)

	Semenov: Travels in the Tien'-Shan', Part One
		According to their story, the lake in general was eight metres deep, but in places this depth decreased to four metres.
		It was obvious that, frightened by their bloody battle with the Russians, they had fled, in all likelihood to Lake Issyk-kul', and that is where I decided to confront them with my whole detachment, proceeding up the river Chu through the wild Buam gorge.
		During my stay in Berlin (1853) geographers thought that Lake Issyk-kul' had an outlet, but some believed the river Chu to be this outlet, while others, on the basis of information circulated by Humboldt, thought it to be the river Kutemaldy, which supposedly issued from Lake Issyk-kul' and flowed far into the steppe.
	www.iras.ucalgary.ca /~volk/sylvia/Semenov1.htm (15252 words)

	Landscape and climate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Once the world's fourth-largest lake, it is shrinking into two smaller lakes.
		Engineers in the former Soviet Union diverted water from the lake to irrigate fields.
		This partially emptied the lake and left the land around it dry and dusty.
	www.cp-pc.ca /english/kazakhstan/landclim.html (405 words)

	Amazon.com: "Lake Issyk-kul": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Turfan, Kucha, the Bedel pass, Lake Issyk-Kul, the Chuy valley (near present-day Bishkek), Tashkent, Samarkand, Balkh,...
		4 Lake lssyk-Kul Lake Issyk-Kul is situated in the southern part of the former USSR near the northern Tien-Shan mountains and is the largest water...
		A relaxed city of wide streets and handsome houses, it is a jumping-off point for the Tian Shan Mountains and Lake Issyk-Kul,...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Lake-Issyk_kul (541 words)

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