Kunlun Mountains
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The western Kunlun Shan, seen from the Tibet - Xinjiang road
Kunlun (Chinese昆仑 山(脉) /昆仑 山(脉), Pinyin Kunlun Shān (May), Kunlun Mountains ', in older transcription also Kuenlun ) is a nearly 3000 km long and up to 7167 m high mountain chain in China ( Asia).
Geography
The high mountain passes from the river Yarkant, which forms the natural border with the Pamirs, or from Karakorumpass ( 5575 m), which represents the demarcation to the Karakorum, among others, along the northern border with the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China to the east. It is at about 2500 km long border to the highlands of Tibet, the remaining eastern part is located in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The Kunlun Mountains consists mainly of the western Przhevalsky Mountains, which abuts the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, and the eastern Marco Polo mountain range that borders on the same highlands and abuts the southern edge of the Qaidam Basin. From Prschewalskigebirge branches off to the northeast of Nan Shan. The eastern continuation is called the Qinling Shan.
Mountains
The mountain ranges of the Kunlun Shan have over 200 peaks of over 6000 meters above sea level. The highest mountains are:
- Liushi Shan ( Kunlun Goddess ) ( 7167 m ⊙ 35.31583380.9158337167 )
- Ulugh Muztagh ( 6973 m ⊙ 36.412587.3841666666676973 )
- Bukadaban Feng ( 6860 m ⊙ 36.02416790.8658336860 )
- Yuzhu Shan ( 6178 m ⊙ 35.652594.2508336178 )
- Malan ( 6056 m)
- Tekiliktag ( 5466 m)
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Earth's
The Kunlun Mountains was formed by the collision of the board of the Indian subcontinent with the Eurasian plate, which joined the called the Tethys primordial ocean.
The bodenschatz rich mountain range is largely a high mountain desert.
Mythology
The mountain is known in Chinese mythology as Daoist paradise. The first recorded trip there took on the legend of King Mu Wang ( 1001-946 BC) of the Zhou dynasty. He allegedly discovered there the Jade Palace of Huang Di, the mythical Yellow Emperor and met Xiwangmu, the Royal Mother of the West, there had also its mythological abode. The Kunlun Mountains was therefore regarded as the place to which one could attain immortality. According to mythology, lived here among other things, Xian, the immortals.
European research
1855 crossed the Bavarian Alps researchers Schlagintweit Hermann and his brother Robert Schlagintweit the Kunlun Mountains. Hermann von Schlagintweit added after his elevation to the hereditary Bavarian nobility, add the name of the mountain his family name in the form of Schlagintweit - Sakünlünski.