Rudok
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Rudok
- Alternative form of Rutog
- 1987, Teg Bahadur Kapur, Ladakh: The Wonderland[1], Delhi: Mittal Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 16:
- To the east of Ladakh are Rodok, Chang-Thang and Ngari. In area Rudok (now under illegal occupation by the Chinese) is the great Pang Kong lake. It is eighty miles long and about sixty miles broad. The whole of Rudok is about four thousand and eight hundred square miles, and is at an elevation of fourteen thousand five hundred feet above sea level.
- 1996 [1963], Jack Higgins, Year of the Tiger[2], London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 53:
- You’ll notice that some fifty miles into Tibet, there’s a village called Rudok. In his despatch the other day, Ferguson informed me that, according to the young Tibetan nobleman who brought out the letter, the Chinese have little control of the area. He says the monastery outside Rudok is quite a centre of resistance. If we could get you there, you’d at least have a base. Of course, from then on, you’d have to play it by ear.’