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Definition of Mustagh

1. Noun. A mountain range in northern Kashmir; an extension of the Hindu Kush; contains the 2nd highest peak.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mustagh

Literary usage of Mustagh

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1907)
"Leaving this place, he tried the mustagh pass, and finding that he could not cross it with his mules, he left them behind, and went on himself with a ..."

2. The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde) by Eduard Suess (1904)
"mustagh and Kuen-luen. Hindu Kush and Pamir. The eastern Himalaya. Burma, Malacca, Sumatra. Summary. SINCE Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Hitter gave us ..."

3. The Pamirs: Being a Narrative of a Year's Expedition on Horseback and on by Charles Adolphus Murray Dunmore (1893)
"This day saw our passage of the mustagh, or Ice Mountains, by the Karakoram pass. After what we had read of its dangers and difficulties, and after what had ..."

4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"Now the next great granitoid axis south of the above, with palaeozoic rocks on its northern face, is at the mustagh Pass, 50 miles to the south of the ..."

5. Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges by Norman Collie (1902)
"Ihi Gamin, or Kamet, in Kumaon, Kln, in the mustagh range, ... K9 in the mustagh range, Feet 25661 25660 25586 25550 25503 25493 25456 25443 25415 25370 ..."

6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1871)
"... which comes between the mustagh Pass (the most- westerly point actually on the watershed determined by my survey operations) ¡ind the ..."

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