Aksai Chin Lake
Aksai Chin Lake or Aksayqin Lake, is an endorheic lake on the Aksai Chin Plateau. The plateau is administered by China but also claimed by India. The lake is sometimes referred to as Amtogor Lake which is Ladakhi for "encounter with a round object".
The lake is part of Hotan County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, The lake is located just south of the Kunlun Mountains. It is approximately long and - across. It is fed by the river of the same name, Aksai Chin River.
China National Highway 219 passes some to the southwest of the lake on its way from Shiquanhe, Tibet to Yarkand, Xinjiang. The lake itself is within Hotan County of Xinjiang, but the eastern part of the basin that drains into it is within Rutog County, Tibet, as the official Xinjiang-Tibet border runs only about east of the lake.
In the 1950s, prior to the Sino-Indian War, India collected salt from this lake and two other lakes in Aksai Chin to study the economic feasibility of potential salt mining operations. This lake was the only lake deemed economically viable.
