Place · 48.96° N · 117.39° E
Hulun Lake
Хөлөн нуур
Two travelers wrote about Hulun Lake between 1893 and 1929. Here is what each of them saw, in the order they were there.
- 1893–1929
Larson, Duke of Mongolia
A large steppe lake in the eastern grasslands near which Larson camped while surveying ancient ruins. "Dalai Nor" is Mongolian for "sea lake" — today's Hulun (Dalai) Lake in Inner Mongolia.
We camped for two days on the shore of Dalai Nor and went carefully over the territory described by Gerbillon in his remarkable journey…Listen from here · chapter 11, 2:36He mentions royal ruins, but as Prjevalski, who circled Dalai Nor in 1871, did not mention them, we supposed that weather had obliterated them in the…Listen from here · chapter 11, 2:52 - 1902
Journeys in Mongolia
Lake Hulun (Dalai Nor) in the Hulunbuir grassland, the great lake that takes the overflow of Buir Lake by the Ursun river — among the largest lakes of Inner Mongolia.
…Sume on the Ursun Gol, which carries the overflow from Bur Nor to Kulun Nor; so slight was this on August 1 that I could scarcely discern the trend of the current.Listen from here · chapter 8, 0:21…on August 5, at a point less than two marches from its entrance into Kulun Nor, and 5 or 6 miles south-west of the Altan Emul (Golden Saddle), a pair of brown hills…Listen from here · chapter 9, 0:03
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