page_title: Little Pamir
hierarchical_section_title: Little Pamir
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: ruinsofdesertcat01stei (find matches) Title: Ruins of desert Cathay&#160;: personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China Year: 1912 (1910s) Authors: Stein, Aurel, Sir, 1862-1943 Archaeological Survey of India Subjects: Publisher: London&#160;: Macmillan Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: -dong, and a warm and slightly sulphurous springclose below it. Then we crossed, almost without per-ceiving it, the lov/ and flat saddle which separates theAb-i-Panja Valley from the drainage of the Murghab orAk-su, the other main branch of the Oxus. By a geo-graphically interesting bifurcation which I was glad toverify closely, the stream of the Chilap Jilga whichdebouches on this saddle from the range to the north sendsits waters partly towards Bozai-gumbaz and the Ab-i-Panja and partly into Lake Chakmaktin, the head-watersbasin of the Murghab. It was curious to think that, whilesome drops in the Chilap stream would reach the trueOxus bed within a couple of hours, others from the samemelting snow-bed would have to travel over three hundredand fifty miles through the Russian Pamirs and thegorges of Roshan before becoming reunited. From where we touched the shore of Lake Chak-maktin the broad basin of the Little Pamir spread out tothe north-east, a morne waste of half-frozen marsh and Text Appearing After Image: 27- VIEW ACROSS LAKE CHAKMAKTIN TOWARDS AK-TASH, LITTLE PAMIR. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: The Little Pamir is a broad U-shaped grassy valley or pamir in the eastern part of the Wakhan in north-eastern Afghanistan. The valley is 100 km long and 10 km wide, and is bounded to the north by the Nicholas Range, a subrange of the Pamir Mountains.
  Chaqmaqtin Lake lies towards the western end of the valley while the Tegerman Su valley lies at its easternmost end. The Aksu or Murghab River flows east from the lake through the Little Pamir to enter Tajikistan at the eastern end of the valley. The Bozai Darya rises a short distance west of the lake, and flows 15 km west to join the Wakhjir River and form the Wakhan River near the settlement of Bozai Gumbaz.
  The Little Pamir is used by semi-nomadic Kyrgyz herders for summer pasture. In 1978 almost all the inhabitants fled to Pakistan in the aftermath of the Saur Revolution. Many of the Kyrgyz subsequently migrated to Turkey, but in October 1979, following the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, a group of about 200 Kyrgyz returned to the Little Pamir. In 2003 there were 140 yurt households.
  The valley supports populations of Marco Polo sheep, ibex, and other wild animals.
context_section_description: The Little Pamir (Wakhi: Wuch Pamir; Kyrgyz: Kichik Pamir; Persian: پامیر خرد‎, romanized: Pāmīr-e Khord) is a broad U-shaped grassy valley or pamir in the eastern part of the Wakhan in north-eastern Afghanistan. The valley is 100 km long and 10 km wide, and is bounded to the north by the Nicholas Range, a subrange of the Pamir Mountains.
  Chaqmaqtin Lake (9 km by 2 km) lies towards the western end of the valley while the Tegerman Su valley lies at its easternmost end. The Aksu or Murghab River flows east from the lake through the Little Pamir to enter Tajikistan at the eastern end of the valley. The Bozai Darya (also known as the Little Pamir River) rises a short distance west of the lake, and flows 15 km west to join the Wakhjir River and form the Wakhan River near the settlement of Bozai Gumbaz.
  The Little Pamir is used by semi-nomadic Kyrgyz herders for summer pasture. In 1978 almost all the inhabitants fled to Pakistan in the aftermath of the Saur Revolution. Many of the Kyrgyz subsequently migrated to Turkey, but in October 1979, following the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, a group of about 200 Kyrgyz returned to the Little Pamir. In 2003 there were 140 yurt households.
  The valley supports populations of Marco Polo sheep, ibex, and other wild animals. The naturalist George Schaller has advocated the creation of an international peace park to protect the wildlife in the area.
  The Little Pamir is accessed by trails from the roadhead at Sarhad-e Broghil, about 5 days' walk away. A rough road also leads to the Little Pamir from Murghab in Tajikistan, and was the route by which the Soviets occupied the eastern part of Wakhan. The border is now closed. In 2000 the road was used to deliver humanitarian aid to the Kyrgyz of the Little Pamir, and in 2003 a trade fair was held at the border for a few hours.
caption: View across Lake Chakmaktin towards Ak-Tash, Little Pamir
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