Tsaidam

From Tsaidam, apparently, the travellers cross the range to which Prejevalsky gave the name of Marco Polo so as to strike the upper sources of the Kin Sha Kiang, which river they hope to follow to Batang, the Chinese frontier post on the main road from Pekin to Lhassa.

1889 November 14, The Bombay Gazette, number 12771, Bombay, page 3, column 5; republished as The Leisure Hour, 1890, →OCLC, page 139, column 2

Journeying by way of Kökö Nor, he penetrated Tsaidam, staying at several important monasteries there, and trying to amass supplies for his raid to Lhása. Indeed by April 1889, in spite of opposition from his Mongol acquaintance in Tsaidam, he was well over the bounding ranges and some distance on the road to the capital of Tibet.

1904, Graham Sandberg, The Exploration of Tibet: Its History and Particulars from 1623 to 1904, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co.; W. Thacker & Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 202

To insure transportation for the prospecting teams, two new highways were laid. One, about 540 miles long, traverses the northern edge of the Tsaidam from east to west. It links Kansen on the Tsinghai-Sinkiang road with Chaka on the Tsinghai-Tibet road west of lake Koko Nor. The other road traverses the basin from north to south, linking Tunhwang (Kansu Province) via Mahai with Golmo, road center on the southern edge of the Tsaidam.

1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 268

The first nuclear weapon was brought onto the Tibetan Plateau in 1971 and stationed in the Tsaidam basin, north Amdo. The Tsaidam Basin is an ideal site for nuclear development. It has a high altitude and is isolated.

2012 May 11, Sylvia Downes, “The global cost of China's destruction of the 'roof of the world'”, in The Ecologist, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2020