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English: Cropped excerpt from a 1923 reprint of the 1916 "India and Adjacent Countries" map series, showing the headwaters system of the Shyok River in the region of Ladakh. Originally published by the Survey of India under the direction of Colonel Sir S.G. Burrard. This excerpt focuses on the Shyok River's source and its first significant tributary.
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Source https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/india_1m/sheet-52-leh-1923.jpg
Author Surveyor General of India (Colonel Sir S.G. Burrard, K.C.S.I., R.E., F.R.S.)
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Cropped excerpt from a 1923 reprint of the 1916 "India and Adjacent Countries" map series, showing the headwaters system of the Shyok River in the region of Ladakh. Originally published by the Survey of India.

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