page_title: Chaqmaqtin Lake
hierarchical_section_title: Chaqmaqtin Lake
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: Chaqmaqtin Lake is a lake in the Wakhan region of Afghanistan. It lies at an elevation of about 4,024 m in the Little Pamir. It extends for about 9 km and is about 2 km wide.
  Chaqmaqtin Lake lies towards the western end of the Little Pamir valley. 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 15km west to join the Wakhjir River and form the Wakhan River near the settlement of Bozai Gumbaz. Some accounts state that the Bozai Darya also rises from Chaqmaqtin Lake. Another source calls the lake "a deeper and possibly marshy section within the Aq Su-Little Pamir River drainage divide".
  The lake is a glacier basin lake formed when the ice was once very thick here before it melted away a few thousand years ago.
context_section_description: Chaqmaqtin Lake (Persian: كول چقمقتين‎, romanized: Kōl-e Chaqmaqtīn) is a lake in the Wakhan region of Afghanistan.  It lies at an elevation of about 4,024 m in the Little Pamir.  It extends for about 9 km and is about 2 km wide. 
  Chaqmaqtin Lake lies towards the western end of the Little Pamir valley. 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 15km west to join the Wakhjir River and form the Wakhan River near the settlement of Bozai Gumbaz. Some accounts state that the Bozai Darya also rises from Chaqmaqtin Lake.  Another source calls the lake "a deeper and possibly marshy section within the Aq Su-Little Pamir River drainage divide".
  The lake is a glacier basin lake formed when the ice was once very thick here before it melted away a few thousand years ago.
caption: View Across Lake Chakmaktin Towards Ak-Tash, Little Pamir
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