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Crescent Lake or Yueyaquan
Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crescent Lake or Crescent Moon Lake or Yueyaquan
(Pinyin: Yuèyá Quán) is a crescent-shaped lake in
the oasis, 5 km southwest of the city
Dunhuang of Gansu province, China.
It was named Yueyaquan since Qing Dynasty. According
to measurement made in 1960, the average depth of the
lake was 4 to 5 meters, with maximum depth 7.5 meters.
In the following 40 years, the depth
of lake continually declined.
In the early 1990s, the area of the lake had shrunken
to only 1.37 acre with average depth
of 0.9 meter (maximum 1.3 meter).
Although local government had plans to restore
the depth through filling with water, the lack
of budget has delayed their actions.
The lake and the surrounding deserts are
very popular with tourists,
who are offered camel and 4x4 rides.
Location: Gansu/Turpan
Surface area:: 1.37 acre (1990s)
Average depth: 4-5 m (1960) 0.9 m (1990s)
Max depth: 7.5 m (1960) 1.3 m (1990s)
The lake and pavillion in June 2006.
What's left of the lake is on the far right.
For a more information about
Crescent Lake see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page was retrieved and condensed from
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Lake)
see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, November 2007.
All text is available under the terms of the
GNU Free Documentation License
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About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
This information was correct in November 2007. E. & O.E.
Hui Chin and I joined a conducted bus tour
from Urumchi to visit Turpan.
It was a very interesting trip and full of drama, as
there was many interesting places to visit and there
was also a number of arguments
on the bus about the tickets and
sights to be visited, the sitting arrangements on the
bus and also about the food and the quality and hygene
standard of the restaurants we have visited.
To cap it all of, my camera's battery ran flat, half
way through, our spare battery and another camera sitting
safely back at the hotel in Urumchi (laughing at our
misfortune), but a few weeks later I had even worst news,
when, after returning home, I found out that two of my
new 2Gigabyte SD memory cards, although seemed to work
perfectly at the time, have invisible pictures on them.
The pictures seem to exist alright,
with all around the 200 plus kilobyte
properties and showing as jpeg pictures, but can't be viewed.
I have lost some very interesting, unusual and irreplacable
pictures of Turpan, Urumchi, Bishkek in Kyrgizstan and pictures
of the countrysides of Kyrgizstan and Kazakstan.
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Now altough we were there and had our visual and phisical
experiences, I have to take advantage of using Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia's
resources with our greatful thanks. Author.
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I would like to mention a few things, that was mentioned to us
during our visit to Turpan, but I do not find any mention on
the pages and articles I read before
putting this page together.
Turpan is sited in a basin (Turfan Depression),
at the second deepest hole after the Dead Sea - under
sea level.
(328ft. below sea level).
Turpan is one of the hottest place on earth, due to its
desert location and relative altitude.
Turpan also one of the driest place on earth again due
to it's location and altitude. (This last two points
make it ideal place to grow grapes and other fruit with
the Karez (water) System's help.
Some of Turpan's listed attractions may be 40+ kilometres
away, normally they still will be listed
as Turpan's attraction.
On the way to Turpan from Urumchi our bus stopped at a
fortress, as I lost the many photos I have taken of this
place - as I have explained above, now I can't find any
reference or mention of the place -
can somebody help me, please? Author.
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