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THE TAKLAMAKAN ANGLO-CHINESE EXPEDITION
FIRST FEMALE-LED INTERNATIONAL EXPEDITION TO CROSS THE TAKLAMAKAN DESERT
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One of the world’s largest and least explored deserts of giant shifting dunes.
A central Asian desert in the Tarim Basin of Xinjiang Province, Western China. The Desert is skirted to the north & south by the old silk route to and from China, a route which had to circumnavigate this inhospitable desert.
Local populations are Turkic, Muslim, Uyghur and Chinese Han
The desert is also home to 409 vertebrates, wild camels, reptiles, & snakes.
TERRAIN & CONDITIONS
Altitudes of up to 5,000 feet (1,500m) - Dunes up to 1,500 feet high (450m) Shifting dunes, creating extremely difficult and challenging terrain Subject to ferocious sandstorms, including the black ‘Kara-buran’. Swinging temperatures daytime 30o C plus to night temperatures – 20o’ C & lower Severe scarcity of water
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