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Lop Nur (lôp nûr), salt basin, SE Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China, in the Tarim River basin. Since 1964, Lop Nur has been used by the China for its nuclear test explosions. Once a large salt lake (as mapped by ancient Chinese geographers), it is now largely dried up, with marshes and small, shifting lakes receiving the channels of the Tarim Tarim , Mandarin Dayan, chief river of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, NW China, c.1,300 mi (2,090 km) long, formed by the union of the Aksu and the Yarkant rivers at the western end of the Taklimakan desert, and flowing generally east, along the northern
..... Click the link for more information. river. The region was explored by N. M. Przhevalsky Przhevalsky, Nikolai Mikhailovich , 1839–88, Russian geographer and explorer in central and E Asia. He made five major expeditions—one to the Ussuri area in the Russian Far East (1867–68) and four to Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet (1870–85).
..... Click the link for more information. and Sven Hedin Hedin, Sven Anders , 1865–1952, Swedish explorer in central Asia. Following soon after Przhevalsky, Hedin explored Tibet, Xinjiang, and the Kunlun and Trans-Himalaya ranges and discovered the sources of the Brahmaputra and the Indus rivers; his account was
..... Click the link for more information. ; archaeological sites at the ancient margins of the lake have yielded mummies of Caucasian inhabitants. In 1928, at the time of the last expedition, the lake covered c.1,200 sq mi (3,100 sq km). The name sometimes appears as Lop Nor and Lo-pu po.

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Extending from the East at Shanhaiguan to the West at Lop Nur, the Great Wall of China has a total length of 6,700 km including all its branches.

Best Great Wall Location - Badaling Great Wall of China by Steve Wong / Travel, recreation and leisure community

Known as Lop Nur, the former lake, once the largest in northwest China, was earlier believed to have evaporated in 1972 as a result of desert erosion and the loss of trees cut for firewood.

Ancient Silk Route lake evaporated 10 years earlier than previously ... by Asian News International

Fortunately, John and the Wild Camel Protection Foundation were able to establish in1999 the 68,000 square mile Arjin Shan Lop Nur nature reserve in an area where China once exploded 43 nuclear tests in the atmosphere.

Epic desert journey by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)