Interactive Maps
Illustrating Tibetan Geography
| Tibet Interactive | Vitual Lhasa |
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Tibetan Geography
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Mt. Everest is located on the Tibet/Nepal border, rising 29,028 feet as the tallest mountain in the Himalaya. |
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| "Even in summer, it does not rain above 15,000 feet in Tibet. All precipitation comes in the form of snow and hail, which rapidly whiten the landscape and the green leaves of the trees (Kling)." |  |
| "Southern Tibet is a land of contrasts: sand dunes lie next to fields of newly harvested barley (Kling)." |  |
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| Some of the documents were excerpted from Tibet and The State of China Atlas |
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This site was created by Diane Hodson, a teacher at the Secondary School for Research, at the NEH Summer Institute "Literatures, Religions, and Arts of the Himalayan Region," held at the College of the Holy Cross, Summer 2008.