قرة قرم
قرةقرم Karakoram | |
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أعلى نقطة | |
القمة | K2 |
الارتفاع | 8,611 m (28,251 ft) |
الإحداثيات | 35°52′57″N 76°30′48″E / 35.88250°N 76.51333°E |
الأبعاد | |
الطول | 500 km (310 mi) |
الجغرافيا | |
البلدان | أفغانستان, الصين, الهند, پاكستان and طاجيكستان |
المناطق/المقاطعات | گلگت-بلتستان, لداخ, شينجيانگ and Badakhshan |
نطاق الإحداثيات | 36°N 76°E / 36°N 76°E |
يحد | جبال پامير, هندو كوش, Kunlun Mountains, الهيمالايا and سلسلة لداخ |
Karakoram | |||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||
الصينية | 喀喇昆仑山脉 | ||||||
Hanyu Pinyin | Kālǎ Kūnlún shānmài | ||||||
المعنى الحرفي | "Kara-Kunlun mountain range" | ||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||
التبتية | ཁར་ཁོ་རུམ་རི | ||||||
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Uyghur name | |||||||
Uyghur | قاراقورام |
قرةقرم Karakoram (أو Karakorum )[1] هي سلسلة جبال كبيرة تمتطي الحدود بين پاكستان والهند والصين، وتقع في مناطق گلگت-بلتستان (پاكستان), لداخ (الهند), ومنطقة شينجيانگ، (الصين). وهي واحدة من سلاسل الجبال العظمى في آسيا, وهي جزء من الهيمالايا بينما هي في الواقع تقع شمال سلسلة الهيمالايا.
The Karakoram is the second-highest mountain range on Earth and part of a complex of ranges that includes the Pamir Mountains, Hindu Kush, and Himalayas.[2][3]
The range contains 18 summits higher than 7,500 m (24,600 ft) in elevation, with four above 8,000 m (26,000 ft):[4][5][6] K2 (8,611 m (28,251 ft) AMSL) (the second-highest peak on Earth), Gasherbrum I, Broad Peak, and Gasherbrum II.
وتمتد لمسافة 500 كم تقريبا. تضم العديد من قمم الهمالايا المرتفعة كقمة كي 2 (8,611 م) وقمة موستاج (7,273 م) وگاشربروم 1 (8,068 م) وجبل كايلاس (6,714 م) والذي يقع في التيبت. ويطلق عليه سكان التبت، كانج ريمبوتس؛ جبل الجليد الثمين. وهذا الجبل مقدس عند الهندوس والبوذيين، ويزعم أنه يحتوي على عروش آلهتهم. ويتسلق الزوار من جميع أنحاء آسيا وآسيا الوسطى والهند هذا الجبل، على الأقدام. وتأخذهم الرحلة في الأدغال المدارية، إلى المرتفعات المتجمدة. وتقع أسفل قمة الجبل بحيرة ماناساروار المقدسة عند الهندوس.
The range is about 500 km (311 mi) in length and is the most glaciated place on Earth outside the polar regions. The Siachen Glacier (76 km (47 mi) long) and Biafo Glacier (63 km (39 mi) long) are the second- and third-longest glaciers outside the polar regions.[7]
The Karakoram is bounded on the east by the Aksai Chin plateau, on the northeast by the edge of the Tibetan Plateau and on the north by the river valleys of the Yarkand and Karakash rivers beyond which lie the Kunlun Mountains. At the northwest corner are the Pamir Mountains. The southern boundary of the Karakoram is formed, west to east, by the Gilgit, Indus and Shyok rivers, which separate the range from the northwestern end of the Himalaya range proper. These rivers flow northwest before making an abrupt turn southwestward towards the plains of Pakistan. Roughly in the middle of the Karakoram range is the Karakoram Pass, which was part of a historic trade route between Ladakh and Yarkand that is now inactive.
The Tashkurghan National Nature Reserve and the Pamir Wetlands National Nature Reserve in the Karalorun and Pamir mountains have been nominated for inclusion in UNESCO in 2010 by the National Commission of the People's Republic of China for UNESCO and have been tentatively added to the list.[8]
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الاسم
Karakoram is a Turkic term meaning black gravel. The Central Asian traders originally applied the name to the Karakoram Pass.[9] Early European travellers, including William Moorcroft and George Hayward, started using the term for the range of mountains west of the pass, although they also used the term Muztagh (meaning, "Ice Mountain") for the range now known as Karakoram.[9][10] Later terminology was influenced by the Survey of India, whose surveyor Thomas Montgomerie in the 1850s gave the labels K1 to K6 (K for Karakoram) to six high mountains visible from his station at Mount Haramukh in Kashmir Valley.
In traditional Indian geography the mountains were known as Krishnagiri (black mountains), Kanhagiri and Kanheri.[11]
الاستكشاف
Due to its altitude and ruggedness, the Karakoram is much less inhabited than parts of the Himalayas further east. European explorers first visited early in the 19th century, followed by British surveyors starting in 1856.
The Muztagh Pass was crossed in 1887 by the expedition of Colonel Francis Younghusband[12] and the valleys above the Hunza River were explored by General Sir George K. Cockerill in 1892. Explorations in the 1910s and 1920s established most of the geography of the region.
The name Karakoram was used in the early 20th century, for example by Kenneth Mason,[9] for the range now known as the Baltoro Muztagh. The term is now used to refer to the entire range from the Batura Muztagh above Hunza in the west to the Saser Muztagh in the bend of the Shyok River in the east.
Floral surveys were carried out in the Shyok River catchment and from Panamik to Turtuk village by Chandra Prakash Kala during 1999 and 2000.[13][14]
الجيولوجيا والمثالج
The Karakoram is in one of the world's most geologically active areas, at the plate boundary between the Indo-Australian plate and the Eurasian plate.[15] A significant part, somewhere between 28 and 50 percent, of the Karakoram Range is glaciated covering an area of more than 15,000 square kilometres or 5,800 square miles,[16] compared to between 8 and 12 percent of the Himalaya and 2.2 percent of the Alps.[17] Mountain glaciers may serve as an indicator of climate change, advancing and receding with long-term changes in temperature and precipitation. The Karakoram glaciers are slightly retreating,[18][19][20] unlike the Himalayas where glaciers are losing mass at significantly higher rate, many Karakoram glaciers are covered in a layer of rubble which insulates the ice from the warmth of the sun.[21] Where there is no such insulation, the rate of retreat is high.[22]
- Siachen Glacier
- Baltoro Glacier
- Hispar Glacier
- Batura Glacier
- Biafo Glacier
- Chogo Lungma Glacier
- Yinsugaiti Glacier
العصر الجليدي
In the last ice age, a connected series of glaciers stretched from western Tibet to Nanga Parbat, and from the Tarim basin to the Gilgit District.[23][24][25] To the south, the Indus glacier was the main valley glacier, which flowed 120 kilometres (75 mi) down from Nanga Parbat massif to 870 metres (2,850 ft) elevation.[23][26] In the north, the Karakoram glaciers joined those from the Kunlun Mountains and flowed down to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) in the Tarim basin.[25][27]
While the current valley glaciers in the Karakoram reach a maximum length of 76 kilometres (47 mi), several of the ice-age valley glacier branches and main valley glaciers, had lengths up to 700 kilometres (430 mi). During the Ice Age, the glacier snowline was about 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) lower than today.[25][26]
أعلى القمم
قالب:Karakoram OSM The highest peaks of the Karakoram are:
Mountain | Height[28] | Ranked | Remark |
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K2 | 8,611 metres (28,251 ft) | 2 | K2 پاكستان– الصين |
Gasherbrum I | 8,080 metres (26,510 ft) | 11 | K5 پاكستان– الصين |
Broad Peak | 8,051 metres (26,414 ft) | 12 | پاكستان– الصين |
Gasherbrum II | 8,034 metres (26,358 ft) | 13 | K4 پاكستان– الصين |
Gasherbrum III | 7,952 metres (26,089 ft) | K3a پاكستان not on world highest list | |
Gasherbrum IV | 7,925 metres (26,001 ft) | 17 | K3 پاكستان |
Distaghil Sar | 7,885 metres (25,869 ft) | 19 | پاكستان |
Kunyang Chhish | 7,852 metres (25,761 ft) | 21 | پاكستان |
Masherbrum I | 7,821 metres (25,659 ft) | 22 | K1 پاكستان |
Batura I | 7,795 metres (25,574 ft) | 25 | پاكستان |
Rakaposhi | 7,788 metres (25,551 ft) | 26 | پاكستان |
Batura II | 7,762 metres (25,466 ft) | پاكستان not on world highest list | |
Kanjut Sar | 7,760 metres (25,460 ft) | 28 | پاكستان |
Saltoro Kangri I | 7,742 metres (25,400 ft) | 31 | K10 پاكستان– الهند |
Batura III | 7,729 metres (25,358 ft) | پاكستان not on world highest list | |
Saser Kangri I | 7,672 metres (25,171 ft) | 35 | K22 الهند |
Chogolisa | 7,665 metres (25,148 ft) | 36 | پاكستان |
Shispare Sar | 7,611 metres (24,970 ft) | 38 | پاكستان |
Trivor Sar | 7,577 metres (24,859 ft) | 39 | پاكستان |
Skyang Kangri | 7,545 metres (24,754 ft) | 43 | پاكستان– الصين |
Mamostong Kangri | 7,516 metres (24,659 ft) | 47 | K35 الهند |
Saser Kangri II | 7,513 metres (24,649 ft) | 48 | الهند |
Saser Kangri III | 7,495 metres (24,590 ft) | 51 | الهند |
Pumari Chhish | 7,492 metres (24,580 ft) | 53 | پاكستان |
Passu Sar | 7,478 metres (24,534 ft) | 54 | پاكستان |
Yukshin Gardan Sar | 7,469 metres (24,505 ft) | 55 | پاكستان |
Teram Kangri I | 7,462 metres (24,482 ft) | 56 | الهند– الصين |
Malubiting | 7,458 metres (24,469 ft) | 58 | پاكستان |
K12 | 7,428 metres (24,370 ft) | 61 | K12 پاكستان– الهند |
Sia Kangri | 7,422 metres (24,350 ft) | 63 | پاكستان– الصين |
Momhil Sar | 7,414 metres (24,324 ft) | 64 | پاكستان |
Skil Brum | 7,410 metres (24,310 ft) | 66 | پاكستان– الصين |
Haramosh Peak | 7,409 metres (24,308 ft) | 67 | پاكستان |
Ghent Kangri | 7,401 metres (24,281 ft) | 69 | پاكستان– الهند |
Ultar Peak | 7,388 metres (24,239 ft) | 70 | پاكستان |
Rimo I | 7,385 metres (24,229 ft) | 71 | الهند |
Sherpi Kangri | 7,380 metres (24,210 ft) | 74 | پاكستان |
Bojohagur Duanasir | 7,329 metres (24,045 ft) | پاكستان not on world highest list | |
Yazghil Dome South | 7,324 metres (24,029 ft) | پاكستان not on world highest list | |
Baltoro Kangri | 7,312 metres (23,990 ft) | 81 | پاكستان |
Crown Peak | 7,295 metres (23,934 ft) | 83 | الصين |
Baintha Brakk | 7,285 metres (23,901 ft) | 86 | پاكستان |
Yutmaru Sar | 7,283 metres (23,894 ft) | 87 | پاكستان |
Baltistan Peak | 7,282 metres (23,891 ft) | 88 | K6 پاكستان |
Muztagh Tower | 7,273 metres (23,862 ft) | 90 | پاكستان– الصين |
Diran | 7,266 metres (23,839 ft) | 92 | پاكستان |
Apsarasas Kangri I | 7,243 metres (23,763 ft) | 95 | الهند– الصين |
Rimo III | 7,233 metres (23,730 ft) | 97 | الهند |
Gasherbrum V | 7,147 metres (23,448 ft) | پاكستان not on world highest list |
The majority of the highest peaks are in the Gilgit–Baltistan region administered by Pakistan. Baltistan has more than 100 mountain peaks exceeding 6,100 metres (20,000 ft) height from sea level.
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K-numbers
K-numbers | International name | Height | Remark |
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K1 | Masherbrum | 7,821 metres (25,659 ft) | |
K2 | K2 | 8,611 metres (28,251 ft) | - at the head of the Godwin-Austen Glacier |
K3 | Gasherbrum IV | 7,925 metres (26,001 ft) | |
K3a | Gasherbrum III | 7,952 metres (26,089 ft) | |
K4 | Gasherbrum II | 8,034 metres (26,358 ft) | - |
K5 | Gasherbrum I | 8,080 metres (26,510 ft) | - |
K6 | Baltistan Peak | 7,282 metres (23,891 ft) | |
K7 | Gomgma Gangri | 6,934 metres (22,749 ft) | at the head of the Charakusa Valley |
K8 | Skilma Gangri | 7,422 metres (24,350 ft) | on the western flank of the Siachen Glacier |
K9 | Gamba Gangri | 7,000 metres (23,000 ft) (approx) | near Trango Towers |
K10 | Saltoro Kangri I | 7,742 metres (25,400 ft) | - |
K11 | Saltoro Kangri II | 7,705 metres (25,279 ft) | - |
K12 | Saitang peak | 7,428 metres (24,370 ft) | - subsidiary of Saltoro Kangri |
K13 | Dansam Peak | 6,666 metres (21,870 ft) | south west of Saltoro Kangri |
K22 | Saser Kangri I | 7,672 metres (25,171 ft) | |
K25 | Pastan Kangri | 6,523 metres (21,401 ft) | south of Saltoro Kangri |
K35 | Mamostong Kangri | 7,516 metres (24,659 ft) |
السلاسل الصغرى
The naming and division of the various subranges of the Karakoram is not universally agreed upon. However, the following is a list of the most important subranges, following Jerzy Wala.[29] The ranges are listed roughly west to east.
- Batura Muztagh
- Rakaposhi-Haramosh Mountains
- Spantik-Sosbun Mountains
- Hispar Muztagh
- South Ghujerab Mountains
- Panmah Muztagh
- Wesm Mountains
- Masherbrum Mountains
- Baltoro Muztagh
- Saltoro Mountains
- Siachen Muztagh
- Rimo Muztagh
- Saser Muztagh
الممرات
قالب:Karakoram Mountain Pass OSM Passes from west to east are:
- Dandala Pass is the most important and earlier pass. It starts from Ghursay saitang city to Yarqand in China. It is the main trade route between Khaplu, Ladakh, Kharmang to Yarqand, China.
- Kilik Pass
- Mintaka Pass
- Khunjerab Pass (the highest paved international border crossing at 4,693 m (15,397 ft))
- Shimshal Pass
- Mustagh Pass
- Karakoram Pass
- Sasser Pass
- Naltar Pass or Pakora Pass[30]
The Khunjerab Pass is the only motorable pass across the range. The Shimshal Pass (which does not cross an international border) is the only other pass still in regular use.
Cultural references
The Karakoram mountain range has been referred to in a number of novels and movies. Rudyard Kipling refers to the Karakoram mountain range in his novel Kim, which was first published in 1900. Marcel Ichac made a film titled Karakoram, chronicling a French expedition to the range in 1936. The film won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival of 1937. Greg Mortenson details the Karakoram, and specifically K2 and the Balti, extensively in his book Three Cups of Tea, about his quest to build schools for children in the region. K2 Kahani (The K2 Story) by Mustansar Hussain Tarar describes his experiences at K2 base camp.[31]
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الهامش
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- ^ For Nepal, the heights indicated on the Nepal Topographic Maps are followed. For China and the Baltoro Karakoram, the heights are those of Mi Desheng's "The Maps of Snow Mountains in China". For the Hispar Karakoram the heights on a Russian 1:100,000 topo map "Hispar area expeditions". Archived from the original on 2008-04-27. Retrieved 2008-07-15. seem to be more accurate than the customarily quoted heights probably based on US army maps from the 50s [1]. Elsewhere, unless otherwise indicated, heights are those in Jill Neate's "High Asia".
- ^ Jerzy Wala, Orographical Sketch Map of the Karakoram, Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research, Zurich, 1990.
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المصادر
- Curzon, George Nathaniel. 1896. The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus. Royal Geographical Society, London. Reprint: Elibron Classics Series, Adamant Media Corporation. 2005. ISBN 1-4021-5983-8 (pbk); ISBN 1-4021-3090-2 (hbk).
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- مثلجات پاكستان
- قرةقرم
- Mountain ranges of Afghanistan
- Landforms of Badakhshan Province
- Mountain ranges of Pakistan
- Mountain ranges of Gilgit-Baltistan
- Mountain ranges of India
- Mountains of Ladakh
- Mountain ranges of Xinjiang
- Sites along the Silk Road
- Turkic words and phrases
- صفحات مع الخرائط