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Definition of Kuenlun mountains
1. Noun. A mountain range in western China that extends eastward from the Indian border for 1000 miles.
Group relationships: Cathay, China, Communist China, Mainland China, People's Republic Of China, Prc, Red China
Terms within: Muztag, Muztagh, Ulugh Muz Tagh, Ulugh Muztagh
Generic synonyms: Chain, Chain Of Mountains, Mountain Chain, Mountain Range, Range, Range Of Mountains
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kuenlun Mountains
Literary usage of Kuenlun mountains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories: A Geographical Account by Frederic Drew (1875)
"The kuenlun mountains make a continuous ridge, with some higher peaks covered
with permanent consolidated •snow-beds; these tower 6000 or 7000 feet above ..."
2. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on by Susie Carson Rijnhart (1904)
"Crossing the kuenlun mountains—" Buddha's Cauldron "—Marshes and Sand-hills—Dead
Yak Strew the Trail—Ford of the Shuga Gol—Our Guides Desert Us—Snow Storm ..."
3. The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the by Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (1897)
"THE kuenlun mountains. shows that the main range of the kuenlun mountains must
recede considerably from here. ..."
4. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1883)
"... penetrating far between the mountain spurs to the very base of the Kuenlun
Mountains. At this stage there was no watershed between the Indian and ..."
5. Teaching the New Geography: A Manual for Use with the Frye-Atwood by Wallace Walter Atwood, Helen Goss Thomas (1921)
"... northern margin of the plateau, he crossed the kuenlun mountains and the ...
the Hindu Kush, the Himalayas, the Karakoram, and the kuenlun mountains. ..."
6. Guyot's New Intermediate Geography by Arnold Guyot (1875)
"... while the plateaus of eastern Turkestan and Mongolia, i the kuenlun mountains,
are only from two thousand to five thousand fert above the sea. Slopes. ..."
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