 Issyk Kul from space, September 1992
 Issyk Kul at sundown (2002) Issyk Kul (also Ysyk Köl, Issyk-kol) (located at 42°30′N 77°30′E) is an endorheic lake in the northern Tian Shan mountains in northwestern Kyrgyzstan. It has a length of 182 km, a width of up to 60 km, and covers an area of 6,332 km². This makes it the second largest mountain lake in the world behind Lake Titicaca. Located at an altitude of 1,620 m, it reaches 702 m in depth. The lake is slightly saline and remains ice-free in winter. It is fed by springs and snow melt-off, and it has no current outlet. Its southern shore is dominated by the ruggedly beautiful Tian Shan mountain range. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (640x614, 175 KB) Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan - September 1992 image description here File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (640x614, 175 KB) Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan - September 1992 image description here File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1152x864, 146 KB)I took this picture myself, at Issyk-Kul, when I was in Kirgistan for 1. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1152x864, 146 KB)I took this picture myself, at Issyk-Kul, when I was in Kirgistan for 1. ...
ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1152x864, 602 KB) Issyk Kul beach that I was at in 2002. ...
ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1152x864, 602 KB) Issyk Kul beach that I was at in 2002. ...
The shores of Lake Hart, an endorheic desert lake in South Australia In geography, an endorheic basin is a watershed from which there is no outflow of water (either on the surface as rivers, or underground by flow or diffusion through rock or permeable material). ...
A lake is a body of water surrounded by land. ...
The Tian Shan (Chinese: 天山; Pinyin: Tiān Shān; celestial mountains) mountain range is located in Central Asia, in the border region of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of western China. ...
Tourists aboard a totora boat made of reeds on Lake Titicaca. ...
Salinity is the saltiness or dissolved salt content of a body of water. ...
The Tian Shan (Chinese: 天山; Pinyin: Tiān Shān; celestial mountains) mountain range is located in Central Asia, in the border region of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of western China. ...
During the Soviet era, the lake became a popular vacation resort, with numerous sanatoria, boarding houses and vacation homes along its northern shore, many concentrated in and around the town of Cholpon-Ata. During this period the lake, with its salinity comparable to Ocean waters, served as a secret testing ground for torpedoes. State motto (Russian): Пролетарии вÑех Ñтран, ÑоединÑйтеÑÑŒ! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Socialist republics Area - Total - % water 1st before collapse 22,402,200 km² Approx. ...
A boulder-strewn slope at Cholpon-Ata has numerous examples of petroglyphs, many showing people hunting animals which are now extinct or scarce in the area Cholpon-Ata is a resort town on the northern shore of Lake Issyk-Kul in the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan) with a year-round population...
A torpedo in Rail terminology refers to a small explosive device strapped to the top of the rail to alert an approaching train of immediate danger ahead. ...
The city of Karakol (formerly Przhevalsk), administrative seat of Issyk-Kul oblast, is located near the eastern tip of the lake and is a good base for excursions into the surrounding area. Its small old core contains an impressive wooden mosque and a wooden orthodox church that was used as a stable during Soviet times. Karakol (black wrist in Kyrgyz) is a city of about 75,000, located near the eastern tip of lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan and about 150 km from the Kyrgyz-Chinese border. ...
Oblast (Czech: oblast, Slovak: oblasÅ¥, Russian and Ukrainian: , Belarusian: , Bulgarian: оÌблаÑÑ‚) refers to a subnational entity in some countries. ...
A 14th century Armenian monastery was found on the northeastern shores of the lake by retracing the steps of a medieval map used by Venetian merchants on the Silk Road. This 14th-century statue from south India depicts the gods Shiva (on the left) and Uma (on the right). ...
The Tikse monastery in Ladakh, India A monastery is the habitation of monks, derived from the Greek word for a hermits cell. ...
Location within Italy Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venexia) 45°26′N 12°19′E, the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the province of Venice in Italy. ...
For other uses, see Silk Road (disambiguation). ...
Sevan trout, an endemic fish of Lake Sevan in Armenia, was introduced into the lake in the 1970s. While it is an endangered species in its "home" lake, it has a much better chance to survive in Lake Issyk-Kul where it has ravaged the indigenous species. In biology and ecology endemic means exclusively native to a place or biota, in contrast to cosmopolitan or one of various ways of being not native (e. ...
Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus: the most abundant species of fish in the world. ...
Lake Sevan (ÕÖ‡Õ¡Õ¶Õ¡ Õ¬Õ«Õ³ in Armenian), named Gegham Sea (Ô³Õ¥Õ²Õ¡Õ´Õ¡ Õ®Õ¸Õ¾) in ancient times, also referred to erroniously by its Turkish name Gokcha (or Goktscha), is Armenias largest lake, the largest lake in Transcaucasia and one of the largest high altitude lakes in the world. ...
The American bison there are as few as 750 in 1890 due to extreme overhunting. ...
The Legend of its Creation
In Islamic legend, the king of the Ossounes had ass's ears. He would hide them, and order each of his barbers killed to hide his secret. One barber yelled the secret into a well, but he didn't cover the well after. The well water rose and flooded the kingdom. The kingdom is today under the waters of Issyk-Kul. This is how the lake was formed, so legend says. Other legends say that four drowned cities lie at the bottom of the lake; in fact, substantial archaeological finds have been made in shallow waters of the lake. Islam (Arabic: ; ( (help· info)), submission (to the will of God)) is a monotheistic faith, considered one of the Abrahamic religions, and the worlds second-largest religion. ...
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