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Yinsugaiti Glacier

glacier in Xinjiang, China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ11829128 ↗
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The Yinsugaiti Glacier is located in Shaksgam River basin, north-west of K2 peak on the northern slope of the Karakoram Range. The glacier is about 41.5 kilometres long, covering an area of 392.4 square kilometres. It is China's largest glacier valley.

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“Yinsugaiti Glacier” enters the record as glacier in Xinjiang, China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yinsugaiti, Glacier and glacier can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yinsugaiti Glacier” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.