Kunlun Mountains

Based on limited biological surveys, the known distribution of Kozlov's pika is restricted to three regions, 1) the Valley of the Winds; 2) the juncture of the Kala and Kunlun Mountains, which is located south-east of Mount Kongke; and 3) in the Arjin Mountain Nature Reserve.

North Tibetan Plateau-Kunlun Mountains alpine desert 2008

Chinese jade was relatively accessible, as production from the mines of the Kunlun Mountains never stopped.

Nothing Gold Can Stay Hugh Thomson 2011

The party scaled the Kunlun Mountains to the Tibetan Plateau.

An Odyssey Through Wartime China Stephen Miller 2010

To the south, the Tian Shan are separated from the Kunlun Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau by the broad, hyper-arid Tarim Basin and Taklimakan Desert.

Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows 2008

Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii), in the Kunlun Mountains, Tibet, China.

North Tibetan Plateau-Kunlun Mountains alpine desert 2008

To the south, the Tian Shan are separated from the Kunlun Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau by the broad, hyper-arid Tarim Basin and Taklimakan Desert.

Tian Shan montane conifer forests 2008

This ecoregion is comparable to the Kunlun Mountains biogeographic subunit in the Tibetan Plateau according to Mackinnon.

North Tibetan Plateau-Kunlun Mountains alpine desert 2008

The Qaidam is a graben, or sunken valley, that lies between the Altun Mountains to the north (highest peaks exceed 6,000 meters (m)) and the Kunlun Mountains to the south (highest peaks exceed 7,000 m).

Qaidam Basin semi-desert 2008

Geoecology and sustainable mountain development in the Kunlun Mountains, China.

Qaidam Basin semi-desert 2008

It fills the expansive Tarim Basin between the Kunlun Mountains and the Tibet Plateau to the south and the Tian Shan (Celestial Mountains) to the north.

Taklimakan desert 2007