Silk Road - Lopnur
Now a dry lake when times ago it was feed by the Tarim He river. The bottom has been explored by Sven Hedin in an expedition of 1927-35 and then by Folke Bergman in 1935. Finally it was used as a polygon for the nuclear tests in China. - See the Silk Road map with a complete picture set.

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