Baishiya Karst cave, Tibetan Plateau
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Bone remains found from the Baishiya Karst Cave on the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau
🔸 It is also known as Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and Qing–Zang Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central, South, and East Asia.
🔸 It stretches approximately 1,000 kilometres north to south and 2,500 kilometres east to west.
🔸 It is the world's highest and largest plateau above sea level.
🔸 With an average elevation exceeding 4,500 metres and being surrounded by imposing mountain ranges that harbor the world's two highest summits, Mount Everest and K2, the Tibetan Plateau is often referred to as "the Roof of the World".
🔸 The Tibetan Plateau contains the headwaters of the drainage basins of most of the streams and rivers in surrounding regions. This includes the three longest rivers in Asia (the Yellow, Yangtze, and Mekong).
🔸 Its tens of thousands of glaciers and other geographical and ecological features serve as a "water tower" storing water and maintaining flow. It is sometimes termed the Third Pole because its ice fields contain the largest reserve of fresh water outside the polar regions.
Why in news?
Bone remains found from the Baishiya Karst Cave on the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau
🔸 It is also known as Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and Qing–Zang Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central, South, and East Asia.
🔸 It stretches approximately 1,000 kilometres north to south and 2,500 kilometres east to west.
🔸 It is the world's highest and largest plateau above sea level.
🔸 With an average elevation exceeding 4,500 metres and being surrounded by imposing mountain ranges that harbor the world's two highest summits, Mount Everest and K2, the Tibetan Plateau is often referred to as "the Roof of the World".
🔸 The Tibetan Plateau contains the headwaters of the drainage basins of most of the streams and rivers in surrounding regions. This includes the three longest rivers in Asia (the Yellow, Yangtze, and Mekong).
🔸 Its tens of thousands of glaciers and other geographical and ecological features serve as a "water tower" storing water and maintaining flow. It is sometimes termed the Third Pole because its ice fields contain the largest reserve of fresh water outside the polar regions.
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Yakutia Province, Russia
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Wild fires in Arctic.
🔸 Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean.
🔸 Yakutsk, which is the world's coldest major city, is its capital and largest city.
🔸 Sakha extends from the Central Siberian Plateau on the west to the Kolyma Lowland on the east and from the Arctic coast on the north to the Stanovoy Mountains on the south.
🔸 It is a mountainous area interspersed with broad plateaus and broken by river and coastal lowlands.
🔸 The climate of Sakha, which is the most severe of the inhabited world, is the extreme of continental.
🔸 Tundra vegetation is prevalent here.
🔸 It is located near Lena river.
Why in news?
Wild fires in Arctic.
🔸 Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean.
🔸 Yakutsk, which is the world's coldest major city, is its capital and largest city.
🔸 Sakha extends from the Central Siberian Plateau on the west to the Kolyma Lowland on the east and from the Arctic coast on the north to the Stanovoy Mountains on the south.
🔸 It is a mountainous area interspersed with broad plateaus and broken by river and coastal lowlands.
🔸 The climate of Sakha, which is the most severe of the inhabited world, is the extreme of continental.
🔸 Tundra vegetation is prevalent here.
🔸 It is located near Lena river.
Chennai-Vladivostok maritime route
🔸 The proposed Vladivostok - Chennai route reduces the travel distance between the two countries to 5,600 nautical miles, from the current shipping route of 8,675 nautical miles from St Petersburg to Mumbai.
🔸 Vladivostok is located around the Golden Horn Bay on the Sea of Japan. Vladivostok is the second-largest city in the Far Eastern Federal District, as well as the Russian Far East, after Khabarovsk.
🔸 The proposed Vladivostok - Chennai route reduces the travel distance between the two countries to 5,600 nautical miles, from the current shipping route of 8,675 nautical miles from St Petersburg to Mumbai.
🔸 Vladivostok is located around the Golden Horn Bay on the Sea of Japan. Vladivostok is the second-largest city in the Far Eastern Federal District, as well as the Russian Far East, after Khabarovsk.
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