Shipton's Arch

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title: Shipton's Arch
text: Shipton's Arch is a conglomerate natural arch in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It is located in Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture west-northwest of Kashgar, near the village of Artux, at an altitude of 2,973 metres (9,754 ft). It is probably the world's tallest natural arch. Though long familiar to locals it was famously "discovered" in 1947 by English mountaineer Eric Shipton during his tenure as the British consul in Kashgar – and made known to the West in his book Mountains o
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description: Natural arch in Xinjiang, China
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipton%27s_Arch
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date modified: 2023-11-24T03:25:44Z
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