Rupkund Lake (India)
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Name (Hebrew)
אגם רופקונד (הודו)
Name (Latin)
Rupkund Lake (India)
Other forms of name
Roopkund Lake (India)
Skeleton Lake (India)
Coordinates
79.73166667 79.73166667 30.26194444 30.26194444 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Lakes India
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q1112110
Library of congress:
sh2013001468
Sources of Information
- Work cat: Sharma, Man Mohan. The mysterious tragedy of Rupkund : the lake of human skeletons, c2012:p. 1 (Rupkund is a small oval shaped glacial lake in the Central Himalayas; at the feet of Mount Trishul int he Nanda Devi Sanctuary)
- Wikipedia, viewed May 20, 2013(Roopkund, Skeleton Lake, is a glacial lake in Uttarakhand state of India famous due to more than five hundred human skeletons found at the edge of the lake. The location is uninhabited and is located in Himalaya at an altitude of about 5,029 metres (16,499 feet); 30°15ʹ43.2ʺN 79°43ʹ55.2E)