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	Qinghai Lake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Qinghai Lake (Chinese: 青海湖; pinyin: qīnghǎi hú; Mongolian: Koro Nor; Tibetan: Tso Ngonpo; "the blue sea") is the largest and highest lake in China.
		Qinghai Lake is also the largest drainless lake in Central Asia and is located 3,205 m (10,515 feet) above sea level in a depression of the Tibetan Plateau.
		Qinghai Lake is sandwiched between and Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures in the northeastern namesake province.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Lake_Qinghai (435 words)

	Qinghai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Qinghai is located on the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau, the world's highest region.
		Qinghai Lake (Koko Nor) is the largest lake in the PRC.
		Qinghai's economy is amongst the smallest in all of China.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Qinghai (743 words)

	Chapter 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In this chapter, landscape observation and analysis is used to examine the present social and environmental conditions in the Qinghai Lake area, and thus to explore the possible not-too-distant future of its alpine grasslands and pastoralists, both locally and in the greater Tibetan plateau region as a whole.
		Qinghai was seen as the heartland of the country, and hence the center of much military presence and military activities (Wittke 1996, Spence 1999).
		Qinghai Lake is a constant backdrop (or foreground) to village life in Jiayi, and it is symbolically both source of life and death.
	www.plateauperspectives.org /foggin2000/dissertation/chapter_4.htm (13300 words)

	Amdo, Tibet: Qinghai Lake, Heimahe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Qinghai Lake is the largest lake in China, covering an area of 4583 square kilometers.
		The lake has been shrinking for at least the last 8000 years, because the present rate of evaporation and, more significantly use, exceeds the rate at which water refills it.
		Much of the lake shore is under cultivation, contrasting sharply with the description of barren uninhabited country given by Alexandra David-Neel during her visit in 1919.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~wittke/Tibet/Qinghai.html (533 words)

	FISH AND FISHERIES AT HIGHER ALTITUDES: ASIA - TECHNICAL PAPER NO. 385
		Small lakes are common and may be permanent or ephemeral, depending on local precipitation and their proximity to rivers.
		Qinghai Lake is at high altitude (3194 m) on the north-eastern margin of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, about 135 km from the city of Xining.
		The hydrochemical characteristics of saline lakes on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau.
	www.fao.org /docrep/003/x2614e/x2614e12.htm (9438 words)

	Qinghai Lake splits due to deterioration
		Qinghai Lake, the largest saltwater lake in China, has changed from a boundless lake into one bigger lake and several smaller ones due to eco-environmental deterioration.
		The picture taken this month showed a lake covering a water surface of 96.7 square kilometers was severed from the main body of Qinghai Lake on its northeastern part.
		Xu Weixin, an engineer of the Qinghai Provincial Remote Sensing Center, attributed the separation of Qinghai Lake to shrinkage of the water surface as a result of a lowered water level and desertification in the region.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-02/24/content_308805.htm (233 words)

	Earth from Space - Image Information
		Qinghai Lake, with an area of 1770 square miles (4580 square kilometers) and a maximum depth of 108 feet (33 meters), is the largest natural lake in China.
		Situated in the eastern end of the desert environment of the Qaidam Basin in Qinghai Province, the lake’s main source of recharge water is snowmelt from the encircling mountain ranges that rise in excess of 14 000 feet (4265 meters).
		Qinghai Lake, one of many inland saline lakes in west-central and northwest China, exhibits sand deposits on its western shoreline as well as its eastern shoreline where the deposits extend into the lake.
	earth.jsc.nasa.gov /sseop/EFS/printinfo.pl?PHOTO=STS066-118-23 (255 words)

	Qinghai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Qinghai (Chinese: 青海; pinyin: Qīnghǎi; Wade-Giles: Ch'ing-hai; Postal System Pinyin: Tsinghai) is a province of the People's Republic of China, named after the enormous Qinghai Lake (Koko Nor).
		Qinghai was historically part of the Amdo province of Tibet.
		The, running between Lanzhou, Gansu and Xining, the province's capital, was completed in 1959 and is the major transportation route in and out of the province.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Qinghai_Province (714 words)

	青海新闻网--english--Qinghai Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Qinghai Lake, "a blue sea" in Mongolian and Tibetan, is the largest inland salt lake in China with an area of 4,500sq.km and an altitude of 3,195m, after which Qinghai Province was named.
		Qinghai Lake is both a scenic spot with a mysterious coloring and a treasure house that scientists all over the world are interested in.
		The present sacrificial offering to Qinghai Lake is held once a year on the 4th day in the 5th lunar month on the northern shore near the Shatuosi Temple.
	www.qhnews.com /1028/2004/12/22/35@65025.htm (1298 words)

	青海新闻网--english--Qinghai Lake: Is it really all dried up? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The lake maintains ecological bio-diversity of the northeast Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and is considered a natural protective screen to prevent an easterly movement of the desertification process.
		In the last few years, the number of Gymnocypris przewalskii, a rare species of carp in the lake, has dropped to about 7,500 tons, only 10 percent of what it was 40 years ago.
		In 2003, the Regulation (Draft) on the Ecological Environmental Protection in the Qinghai Lake Reaches, the first for a nature reserve, was implemented.
	www.qhnews.com /1028/2005/09/13/35@254519.htm (925 words)

	Ramsar Sites Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The lake is surrounded by grasslands, swamp meadow, alpine meadow and semi-desert steppe.
		The lake is 104 km long from east to west, 60 km wide from north to south and 27 m deep.
		Qinghai Lake is a major fishing base in Qinghai Province.
	www.wetlands.org /RDB/Ramsar_Dir/China/cn005D02.htm (523 words)

	On Your Own In China
		Qinghai Province, in the northwest of China, north of Tibet, is one of the least hospitable places on earth.
		Many of the original inhabitants of Qinghai are Tibetans, and the exiled Tibetan god-king, the Dalai Lama (who was born in Qinghai), considers a large slice of the province to be rightfully part of his kingdom.
		The drive to QINCHAI LAKE to the west is spectacular: wide open spaces with occasional Tibetan herdsmen, while to the south are majestic mountains guarding the approaches to Tibet.
	www.earnshaw.com /china/ch22.html (358 words)

	Qinghai
		Qinghai was named because of its large inland salt lake, Qinghai Lake.
		Also Qinghai is rich in wild animals of high value, and has many kinds of crude drugs such as musk, pilose antler, Chinese caterpillar fungus and so on.
		The population density of Qinghai was low on the whole, but it is higher in the east and lower in the west.
	www.unescap.org /esid/psis/population/database/chinadata/qinghai.htm (2617 words)

	ISS EarthKAM: Bookmark Images: Qinghai Hu (a saltwater lake) — China, Asia
		A noted feature and popular attraction of Qinghai Hu is Bird Island, a peninsula in the westernmost part of the lake (towards the top of the photograph).
		Qinghai Province, which takes its name from this lake, is also home to the headwaters of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.
		Qinghai is historically one of the poorest regions in China due to its severe weather and high altitude.
	www.earthkam.ucsd.edu /public/images/bookmarks/STS099.ESC.02113306.shtml (356 words)

	Qinghai Province China - China tourist & travel guide for Qinghai Province, China
		Qinghai is the origin of the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and the Lancang River.
		Qinghai is one of the main pastoral areas in China.
		Qinghai is at the source of the rivers in Ximalaya.
	www.orientaltravel.com /province/Qinghai.htm (230 words)

	Bird flu seen in wild geese in China / Scientists worry the disease, once confined to domestic fowl, will spread via ...
		Qinghai (pronounced ching-high) Lake is the largest saltwater lake in China.
		The lake is a well-known habitat for bar- headed geese, which bore the brunt of the outbreak, as well as for the great fl-headed gull and the brown-headed gull, which were also stricken but in far fewer numbers.
		The evidence that the virus found at the lake is a hybrid made of genes from different H5N1 strains is also disturbing news but not surprising, she said.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/07/07/MNGFPDK15N1.DTL&type=printable (935 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		Lake Tai is the largest of several lakes in the Yangtze delta, and Hongze Lake lies just to the N of the delta.
		The largest is the marshy Qinghai Lake (also known as Koko Nor) in the less elevated NE, but several others nearly as large occur on the high plateau.
		Ulansuhai Lake, which is fed by the Huang He, is in Inner Mongolia; Hulun Nur lies W of the Greater Hinggan in Manchuria.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/nations/china.html (6553 words)

	Novosibirsk Russia and Qinghai Lake China H5N1's are Similar
		First it is clear that the unique genetic sequences seen at Qinghai Lake did not burn out when over 6000 water fowl died.
		The isolates from Qinghai lake were particularly virulent, killing test chickens in 20 hours and mice in 3-4 days.
		Similarly, since Tamiflu targets NA, the near identity between the Novosibirsk and Qinghai isolates and their close relationship to NA from Vietnam suggest that more testing of Tamiflu will be required to determine the optimal does for treating or preventing H5N1 infections.
	www.recombinomics.com /News/08110503/H5N1_Novosibirsk_Qinghai_Lake.html (503 words)

	Illuminating China's Provinces,Municipalities & Autonomous Regions-china.org.cn
		Qinghai Province, abbreviated as "Qing" in Chinese, got its name from its Qinghai Lake, the largest inland saltwater lake in the country.
		As the origin of the Yangtze, Yellow, and Lancang rivers, Qinghai has an area of 720,000 square kilometers, the fourth largest in China.
		The remaining are mountains, lakes, deserts, gobi and glaciers.
	www.china.org.cn /english/features/43598.htm (99 words)

	Qinghai on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Qinghai lies in the Tibetan highlands at an average elevation of 9,800 ft (3,000 m) and is mainly a high, desolate plateau.
		The central region has the vast, swampy Qaidam [Mongolian,=salt marshes] basin, and in the northeast there is the large Qinghai Hu or Koko Nor [Chinese and Mongolian,=blue sea] salt lake for which the province is named; it is the largest lake in China.
		Historically a part of Tibet, the Qinghai region passed to the Mongol overlords of China in the 14th cent., when it became part of Gansu.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/Q/Qinghai.asp (757 words)

	China Province - Region, Regional (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Qinghai Lake Basin consists of a vast lake deposit plain well suited for farming and animal husbandry.
		The Qaidam, a large inland basin walled in by the Altun, Qilian and Kunlun mountains in the northwest, slops from northwest to southeast and is interspersed with numerous salt lakes and swamps.
		Industry: Qinghai is rich in petroleum, lead, zinc, copper, chromium, cobalt, nickel, iron, asbestos, mirabilite, gypsum, lake salt, potassium, boron and coal.
	www.chinatravelsmart.com /province/content_815411.shtml (389 words)

	CNTO - China National Tourist Office
		Qinghai is in the northeastern part of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its name comes from Qinghai Lake, the largest inland lake in China.
		It is the hub of Lanzhu-Qinghai and Qinghai-Tibet Railways, and sits astride the main route to the hinterland of Qinghai and Tibet.
		Qinghai Lake is 10,482 feet above sea level, covering an area of 1,621 square miles.
	www.cnto.org /silkroad-qinghai.asp (374 words)

	Qinghai Province travel guide - China travel guide, Qinghai China travel services, Qinghai tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Qinghai Province is one of the five largest pasturelands in China.
		Qinghai is very proud that the worldfamous Changjiang (Yangtze) and Huanghe (Yellow) rivers descend from its territory.
		Qinghai Province is attractive not only for its beautiful scenery but also for its colorful local customs.
	www.gochina.com /qinghai (235 words)

	THE Golden Silk Road, QINGHAI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Qinghai Province lies on the Northeast of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and borders upon Gansu and Xinjiang.
		It is the largest inland saline lake in China and home of fish and birds of different species.
		The Salt Lake includes more than 30 lakes, which scatter over the around 200,000-square-kilometre Qaidam Basin and forms a unique natural beauty, some of them lies by the snow-clad mountains and others in the desert.
	www.chinavista.com /travel/silk/part4.html (295 words)

	Qinghai Lake in Qinghai
		Lying 180 km from Xining and 3200 metres above sea level, Qinghai Lake is the largest salt water lake in China; not only that it is also the largest of all lakes, both salt water and fresh, in the whole country.
		In Qinghai Lake Bird Island is the most charming and attractive place.
		Situated on the western shore of Qinghai Lake, the island has largely due to the receding of waters off its shores, been turned into a peninsula.
	www.chinatravel.com /china-travel-guides/china-attractions/waters/lakes/qinghai-lake-in-qinghai.shtml (262 words)

	Travel in China,Qinghai Lake
		It is the largest salt water lake in China, with a circumference of 360km and a surface area of over 4,500km squared.
		In ancient times the lake was known as the Western Sea, and in Tibetan it is known as Koko Nor.
		The colours that can be found around the lake are of purity and contrasts, from the deep yellows of oil seed rape against the cold blues of the lake to the dark greens of distant mountains against the fluffy white of bilious clouds.
	www.chinavoc.com /travel/scenery/qhailake_s.asp?id=n (257 words)

	Qinghai Province: China Travel Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Named after Qinghai Lake, the largest inland salt - water lake in China, Qinghai Province is located in the northeastern part of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in western China.
		Qinghai's climate is characterized by short cool summers and long freezing winters.
		Two of Qinghai's biggest highlights, Ta'er Monastery (Kumbum Monastery), which is considered one of the six great monasteries of Gelukpa in Tibetan Buddhism and vast Qinghai Lake, attract nature lovers who enjoy camping, hiking and bird-watching as well as people who have a fascination with Buddhism.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /cityguides/qinghai (346 words)

	Dr. Niman On Qinghai H5N1 Bird Flu Isolates
		These isolates have gained attention because the deaths of the water fowl by H5N1 is without precedent and Qinhai Lake is at the intersection of the two major migratory bird fly ways in Asia.
		H5N1 at Qinghai Lake could be dispersed throughout Asia and into Europe and North America by migratory birds that use these two flyways.
		The PB2 genes from the water fowl at Qinghai Lake have additional polymorphisms found in H1N1 swine isolates from Europe.
	www.rense.com /general67/aas.htm (454 words)

	Novosibirsk Russia And Qinghai Lake China H5N1s Similar
		The above comments on sequences from H5N1 isolated in the Chany Lake region of Novosibirsk leave little doubt that the H5N1 bird flu was brought to the Chany Lake nature reserve via migratory birds (see map).
		The NA of the Qinghai Lake isolates differed from the 2004 isolate from Vietnam by 13 amino acids.
		On a positive note, the similarities between the Novisbirsk and Qinghai isolates suggests that the M2 in migratory bird isolates will be sensitive to amantadine and rimantadine, although there are side effects and resistance has developed in the past.
	www.rense.com /general67/outbd.htm (541 words)

	phorum - Chinese Culture Forum at Asiawind - The 28 provinces of China - QingHai
		This lake is the largest lake in China.
		lake which is renowned for its breathtaking scenery and abundant of bird
		There are good pasturelands in the west of the lake of Qinghai.
	www.asiawind.com /forums/read.php?f=2&i=4308&t=4302 (327 words)

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