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	Lop Nur - MSN Encarta
		Lop Nur, series of salt lakes in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of northwestern China.
		Strong east and northeast winds may be slowly pushing Lop Nur to the west-southwest, filling in one side of the lake with sand and blowing the water toward flatter parts of the region.
		The Lop Nur region is used by the Chinese government as a testing ground for nuclear weapons.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_762509248/Lop_Nur.html (325 words)

	Lop Nur – FREE Lop Nur Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
		Lop Nur, salt basin, SE Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China, in the Tarim River basin.
		The Arjin Shan constitute the southern boundary of the Lop Nur reserve, which, with an area of 175,000 square kilometres, is larger than Poland.
		He crossed Tibet from Lop Nur to Nam Co (1889), traversed Asia from Siberia to Tonkin (1889-90), and led an official mission to Entotto, Ethiopia.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-LopNur.html (856 words)

	Lop Nur - Wikimedia Commons
		Lop Nur or Lop Nor is a desert with a formerly lake in the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, China.
		Satellite picture of the Desert of Lop with the Basin of the formerly sea Lop Nur.
		Satellite picture of the Basin of the formerly sea Lop Nur in the Desert of Lop Nur.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Lop_Nur (236 words)

	Geomorphology: Chapter 8 Plate E-25
		Lop Nur, in the eastern Tarim Basin, was identified in ancient Chinese records and maps as a salt lake 150 km in diameter (Xia, 1982).
		Xia (1982) estimates that 5.3 m of surface was eroded in Lop Nur between 1919 and 1959, although this may be geographically and temporally a local phenomenon.
		The influence of a northeasterly wind direction on elongation of the yardangs is readily apparent both on the Plate and in Figure E-25.2, a Space Shuttle radar image (SIR-A) of the area outlined on the index map.
	daac.gsfc.nasa.gov /geomorphology/GEO_8/GEO_PLATE_E-25.shtml (492 words)

	EORC \| Seen from Space - Remnant of Roaming Lake, Lop Nur
		Figure 1 depicts Lake Lop Nur located in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, on the eastern side of the Tarim Basin, which includes the Taklamakan desert, as observed by the Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer-2 (AVNIR-2) on board the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) Daichi in January 2006.
		Lop Nur means Lake Lop in Mongolian and was the dream of many explorers in the late 19th century.
		Lop Nur was a salt lake, and many salt rocks remain in the dried up lake.
	www.eorc.jaxa.jp /en/imgdata/topics/2007/tp070606.html (857 words)

	BBC News \| MONITORING \| China seeks oil in nuclear wasteland
		Lop Nur (Xinjiang), 25th November: China is looking for oil in the nuclear wasteland in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region soon after the Chinese government agreed to a moratorium on nuclear testing last year.
		At Lop Nur, a desolate area often dubbed as the "zone of death", China conducted 23 atmospheric nuclear tests from 1964 to 1981.
		Lop Nur was a huge lake and marsh land until it completely dried up in 1972.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/monitoring/34564.stm (444 words)

	Bayinguoleng Lop Nur
		Located in the northeast of Ruoqiang County, Lop Nur is about 780 meters (2,560 feet) above sea level and covers an area of about 3,000 square kilometers (1,160 square miles).
		In the broad sense, Lop Nur refers to the Lop Nur desert area which spans Xinjiang and Gansu Provinces.
		Lop Nur is a paradise for travelers who love adventure.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /attraction/xinjiang/korla/lop_nur.htm (431 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - China investing strongly in western region
		At Lop Nur, a desolate area often dubbed the "zone of death," China conducted 23 atmospheric nuclear tests from 1964 to 1981.
		Lop Nur was a huge lake and marsh land until it completely dried up in 1972.
		The activities at Lop Nur are part of a major programme by the Xinjiang Petroleum Administration Bureau to develop giant petroleum and petrochemical industries in the next few years.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/nts81158.htm (828 words)

	informationsphere.com: China
		Lop Nur, with no outflow, is divided into two lake basins that receive seasonal waters from the Tarim River, which has often shifted channels during recent centuries, leading to changes in the exact site of the small salt lake.
		Since the early 1960s, Lop Nur has been used by the Chinese Government as a nuclear research area and testing ground; the first Chinese-developed atomic bomb was exploded there in 1964.
		South of Lop Nur, two lakes appear in a break in the clouds covering the northern Tibetan Plateau and the A-Erch-Chin Range.
	www.informationsphere.com /pgs/body.php3?id=979&action=img&pid=143 (202 words)

	Scientists complete mapping "sea of death" in NW China desert_English_Xinhua
		Cartographers from six western Chinese localities, including Xinjiang, Gansu and Qinghai, began surveying the Lop Nur in early October and spent more than two months collecting topographic data and images for the mapping, said Pu Xingtao, a scientist with the Gansu Bureau of Surveying and Mapping.
		Lop Nur used to be the largest lake in northwestern China before it dried up in 1972 as a result of desertification and environmental degradation.
		Due to its typical geology, geography and historical values, Lop Nur has attracted the attention of scientists from home and abroad since the mid 19th century.
	news.xinhuanet.com /english/2007-12/07/content_7216525.htm (352 words)

	Drivers rescued after being lost in Lop Nur
		At the same time, a rescue team from Ruoqiang County, which Lop Nur belongs to, found the buried vehicle and Pu 50 kilometres from their starting place.
		Lop Nur is known for its harsh conditions.
		It recently aroused people's attention as experts said a dry corpse discovered in Lop Nur is likely to be Peng Jiamu (1925-1980), the scientist who was lost in Lop Nur in June 1980 during a scientific exploration.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /china/2006-05/05/content_582844.htm (495 words)

	Yadan Spectacle
		Yadan Spectacle is situated in the north of Ruoqiang County, Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in the Lop Nur Area.
		Lop Nur Area is the second largest Yadan area after the Qaidam Basin.
		The cluster of eroded mounds are scattered mainly in the north, west and east sides of the Lop Nur Area.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /attraction/xinjiang/korla/yadan.htm (421 words)

	Lop Nor – FREE Lop Nor Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
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		the heart of Asia to solve the riddle of the shifting Lop Nor, and unexpectedly stumbled on the ruins of Loulan...
		Tarim River, crossed the desert, visited Lop Nor, and discovered the ruins of the archeologically...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-E-LopNor.html (797 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Lop Nur to have its first map
		Lop Nur, known as the "sea of death" in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, will be fully unveiled in 2007 by Chinese cartographers.
		Researchers have completed surveying to the desert and Lop Nur's relief maps will be published in early 2007, Surveying and Mapping Institute of Gansu Province has announced.
		Located at the Tarim depression of the eastern Takla Makan Desert, Lop Nur is one of the most barren areas of China.
	english.people.com.cn /200612/22/eng20061222_335073.html (317 words)

	Chinese Dead Sea — Lop Nur - Jongo Knows - Encyclopedia of China
		Lop Nur (罗布泊) is a 3,006 square kilometers water area and it is named the second largest salt-water lake in China.
		It is a good habitat for birds and beasts and it is the origin of life on which the indigene of Lop Nur made a living.
		In A.D.1888, the Russian came to the south of Lop Nur and investigated an oasis.
	knows.jongo.com /res/article/17247 (278 words)

	新浪教育_新浪网
		For a millennium after the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-24 AD), the Lop Nur area was the centre of China's western regions and the hub of communications on the Silk Road, which linked the East with the West.
		Wu, independent explorer, was the leader of the rescue team that found the body of Yu Chunshun, a leading Chinese explorer, in Lop Nur in 1996.
		He and two of his colleagues lived in Lop Nur most of last year, and built the Loulan Cultural Heritage Administration out of two vehicles.
	edu.sina.com.cn /en/2004-02-22/18931.html (1727 words)

	Lop Nur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Desert Lop Nur, Xinjiang, China: Satellite picture of the Helix of the former sea Lop Nur.
		Lop Nur is hydrologically endorheic— there is no outlet.
		The headquarters of the test base is at Malan, about 125 km northwest of Qinggir.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lop_Nur (340 words)

	Lop Nur Nuclear Weapons Test Base
		Lop Nor contains four testing zones, three for underground testing and one for atmospheric.
		Lop Nur is a likely site for interim high-level waste (HLW) storage and an eventual repository.
		This material is produced independently for NTI by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has not been independently verified by NTI or its directors, officers, employees, agents.
	www.nti.org /db/china/lopnur.htm (437 words)

	EDGE Blog » Lop Nur Nature Reserve, China
		Lop Nur is is a group of small, seasonal salt lakes and marshes between the Taklamakan and Kuruktag deserts in the southeastern portion of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous region in northwestern China.
		The 65,000 square kilometre Xinjiang Lop Nur Wild Camel Nature Reserve was created in 1999 to protect the wild camels and their fragile desert habitat.
		The annual survey of Lop Nur Wild Camel National Nature Reserve is part-funded by the WCPF.
	www.edgeofexistence.org /edgeblog/?p=62 (580 words)

	Mummy found in Lop Nur suspicious of missing scientist
		A Chinese expedition last winter found a mummy on the edge of the Lop Nur salt basin, at a spot where a well-known scientist went mysteriously missing nearly 26 years ago.
		Peng was leading a scientific investigation across Lop Nur, when he was reported missing after he sent a message to be rescued in search of drinking water.
		Peng and his fellow scientists were stalled in June 1980 in the southeast edge of Lop Nur, out of edible water and fuel.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /china/2006-04/14/content_567700.htm (494 words)

	Korla travel guide, Xinjiang China
		Originally located only in the Lop Nur area of Ruoqiang County, Yadan, which means "The steep Earthen Mound" in Uygur, has now become a world to indicate a special topography in dry areas.
		It was in the western bank of Lop Nur, an only route by which to pass the Ancient Silk Road.
		The ancient Loulan city on the western bank of Lop Nur is located at 40° 9' 5'' north and 89° 5' 2'' east.
	www.cnhomestay.com /city/cityguides/korla.htm (2584 words)

	Xinjiang to Revive Lop Nur by Water Diversion
		The government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has decided to bring new life to Lop Nur and regard the decision as part of its efforts to be made for western region development.
		Lop Nur became reputed thanks to the book, "Migration Lake", written by Swedish explorer Sven Hedin, but now it has become a stretch of desert.
		Lop Nur was once richly supplied with bountiful water brought by floods and river course changes, but gradually dried up in the 1960s, with its water surface further reduced to nothing in 1972.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /200101/20/eng20010120_60997.html (319 words)

	A Tourism Guide to Charklik / Ruoqiang, Xinjiang, China
		Lop Nor was the final remnant of the Tethys Sea, which enveloped the south of Asia before the Indian subcontinent collided with Asia.
		The center of Lop Nor is sometimes called Da'erduo 大耳朵 Lake or Big Ear Lake, because the gradual drying of the lake resulted in a concentric series of rims that, from the air, resembles a human ear.
		Some portions of the Lop Nor area (north and east of the lake but not in the lake bed itself) were used for Chinese nuclear testing and are thus off-limits.
	www.centralasiatraveler.com /cn/xj/cr/charklik-ruoqiang.html (12977 words)

	ADVENTURE TOUR IN LOP NUR (South to north across)
		¡°Lop¡± is a name of a place, in ancient Uygyr language it means : ¡°place for water flowing in¡±; ¡°Zhuor¡± was came from Mongolian, means ¡°lake¡±.
		The large quantity of water made the people guessed ¡°there must be a river flowing underneath and formed the then called China river to the south of the mountain¡±, people mistakenly thought it was the upper reaches of the Yellow River.
		In history, the largest are of the lake once came to 12,000 square kilometers, then shrank to 3000 square kilometers, and 500 square kilometers to the last century.
	www.ctixj.com /english_onews.asp?id=366 (830 words)

	Wild Camels
		The dried-up lake bed of Lop Nur is in the centre of the region and it is surrounded by the Gashun Gobi desert to the north, east and west and by the Aqike valley and the Kum Tagh sand dunes to the south.
		The Kuruk Tagh mountains, an extension of the Tien Shan mountain range, dissect the area north of Lop Nur.
		There are legal government mining operations in the northern edge of the Xinjiang Lop Nur Wild Camel Nature Reserve and with easy access roads it is easy for off-road vehicles to enter these once remote desert areas.
	www.wildcamels.com /lopnur.htm (1518 words)

	Lop Nur
		Lop Nur was once a vast area of water, and it supported a splendid ancient civilization.
		The dried-up Lop Nur is like a huge ear in a boundless desert sea in the east of Tarim Basin, listening to sonatas made by strong winds and sand.
		Although the natural environment here is rather stark, the present Lop Nur is still not a desolate place.
	www.warriortours.com /cityguides/korla/lop-nor.htm (158 words)

	Impossible to Turn Lop Nur Back into Permanent Lake
		It is impossible to restore a permanent lake at Lop Nur inside Tarim Basin in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, said a Chinese scientist, who also said that it wasn't of much significance.
		The water area of Lop Nur lake shrank to 5,350 sq km in 1958.
		And during the 1949-1994 period, canals totaling 1,088 km, and 206 reservoirs with a combined storage capacity of 3 billion cum were constructed on the river and its tributaries to irrigate these farms.
	www.china.org.cn /english/environment/106693.htm (338 words)

	China Travel Service -- What's New --- Your expert for hotel,flight,train,yangtze cruise and tour !!! trip tour hotel ...
		China is shaping the administrative scheme and delimiting for the establishment of a new town in Lop Nur, a renowned wilderness in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
		The Lop Nur town will be under the administration of Charkhlik, the country's largest county, if the application report of establishing the town is approved by the autonomous regional government.
		The Lop Nur region, at the eastern edge of the Tarim Basin, is in the southeastern part of Xinjiang.
	www.chinats.com /news/621.htm (306 words)

	Lop Nor - Chinese Nuclear Forces
		US satellite intelligence imagery of 6-9 August 1964 showed that the previously suspect facility near Lop Nor in Sinkiang was almost certainly a nuclear testing site.
		Developments at the facility include a ground scar forming about 60 percent of a circle 19,600 feet in diameter around a 325-foot tower (first seen in April 1964 photograph), and work on bunkers near the tower and instrumentation sites at appropriate locations is underway.
		China, Lop Nur nuclear test site, 20 Oct 64 --- In October 1964 China joined the nuclear club by conducting its initial atomic test at Lop Nor, in western China.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/china/facility/lop_nor.htm (250 words)

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