Roopkund Lake
Roopkund, locally known as Mystery Lake or Skeleton Lake, is a high-altitude glacial lake in Himalayas at an altitude of 5,020 m, between Trishul peak and Nanda Ghunti peak, in the Chamoli District of Uttarakhand state of India.- Lake
- …has a surface elevation of 5,029 metres (16,499 feet)
- Description: high altitude glacial lake in Uttarakhand, India
- Also known as“Mystery Lake”“Roopkund”“Rup Kund”“Skeleton Lake”“Skeletons‘ Lake”
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Latitude
30.2621° or 30° 15′ 44″ north
Longitude
79.7317° or 79° 43′ 54″ east
Open location code
8J2X7P6J+RM
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OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
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water=lake
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Roopkund Lake” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحيرة روبكوند”
- Asturian: “Roopkund”
- Azerbaijani: “Roopkund”
- Bengali: “রূপকুণ্ড”
- Bhojpuri: “रूपकुंड”
- Catalan: “Llac dels esquelets”
- Catalan: “Llac Roopkund”
- Catalan: “Roopkund”
- Czech: “Rúp Kund”
- Dutch: “Roopkund”
- Finnish: “Roopkund”
- French: “Roopkund”
- German: “Roopkund Lake”
- German: “Roopkund-See”
- Gujarati: “રૂપકુંડ”
- Hebrew: “רופקונד”
- Hindi: “रूपकुण्ड”
- Indonesian: “Danau Misteri (Roopkund)”
- Indonesian: “Danau Misteri”
- Italian: “Roopkund”
- Italian: “Skeletons Lake”
- Japanese: “ループクンド湖”
- Kannada: “ರೂಪಕುಂಡ”
- Madurese: “Danau Misteri”
- Madurese: “Tase‘ Misteri (Roopkund)”
- Malayalam: “രൂപ്കുണ്ഡ് തടാകം”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Roopkund”
- Nepali: “रूपकुण्ड”
- Panjabi: “ਰੂਪਕੁੰਡ”
- Portuguese: “Roopkund”
- Russian: “Роопкунд”
- Spanish: “Roopkund”
- Tamil: “ரூப் குண்டம்”
- Telugu: “రూప్కుండ్”
- Thai: “รูปกุณฑ์”
- Turkish: “Roopkund”
- Ukrainian: “Роопкунд”
- Vietnamese: “Hồ Roopkund”
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