Skakjung

Skakjung or Kokzhung[1][lower-alpha 1] is 45–kilometer long pasture land along the Indus River valley in Southern Ladakh.[4] It is traditionally used by nomads of nearby villages such as Chushul and Nyoma as well as Rupshu. The Skakung pasture land can be used year-round because it rarely snows in the Indus Valley.[5][6]

Kokzhung area in a map of Jammu and Kashmir by Frederic Drew, 1875

According to Ladakhi Indian diplomat Phunchok Stobdan, Skakjung went from being an Indian-administered area until the mid-1980s to a completely Chinese-administered area by 2008.[4]

See also

Notes
  1. Alternative spellings include Kuk-jung,[2] and Kag-jung[3]

References
  1. Drew, The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories (1875), p. 462.
  2. Moorcroft & Trebeck, Travels in the Himalayan Provinces, Vol. 1 (1841), pp. 362–363.
  3. Moorcroft & Trebeck, Travels in the Himalayan Provinces, Vol. 1 (1841), pp. 439–440.
  4. Stobdan, P. (26 April 2013). "The Ladakh drift". archive.indianexpress.com. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  5. Drew, The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories (1875): "At Dora falls hardly any snow. This is why the place is chosen for winter quarters, the sheep and the cattle being thus able to graze on the extensive though thin pasture found on the flat."
  6. I︠U︡sov, B. V. (1959), Physical Geography of Tibet, U.S. Joint Publications Research Service, p. 138: "The hills are almost naked and only down below, at the foot, is there a grassy cover which, despite its scantiness, is used by nomadic cattle raisers the year round – thanks to the snowless winter."

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