Glaciers in Burma

[Roger Barry]

Graham:
many thanks for the interesting material. I also have not seen anything 
pre 1943 but will try and get Kingdon Ward's book on ILL.

Best
  Roger


Graham Cogley wrote:
> Roger - Very interesting. These words about the source of the Irrawaddy
> appear in a few hundred web locations, according to Google. They all appear
> to be copied from page 278 of de Terra (1943), but I cannot get back further
> than that because he does not give a source for the "Languela glacier".
> 
> I am attaching a fragment of a paper that I drafted in 2007, when I was
> hoping to interest Andrew Klein (Texas A&M) in inventorying the Burmese
> glaciers from satellite imagery. The fragment contains all the facts I had
> dragged together at that time. As far as I know, Andrew has not followed up
> the suggestion.
> 
> A rough guess, from looking at Hkakabo Razi on Google Earth, is that the
> Burmese glaciers might cover 10-15 km^2. There are glaciers on the Chinese
> side of the mountain, and they are inventoried in the Chinese inventory.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Graham.
> 
> Link to de Terra:
> http://books.google.ca/books?id=21gLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA278&lpg=PA278&dq=Languela+
> glacier&source=bl&ots=KdWRIzomlJ&sig=ilBm0M05QN0FK7GioVk1VGo05Mw&hl=en&ei=8z
> YNTKi7F8H-8AaW_KyKBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CB8Q6AEwBDg
> K#v=onepage&q=Languela%20glacier&f=false
> 
> Reference:
> De Terra, H., 1943, The Pleistocene in Burma, Transactions of the American
> Philosophical Society, 32(3), 271-339.
> 
> J. Graham Cogley, Ph.D., Professor of Geography,
> Department of Geography, Trent University,
> Peterborough, Ontario, CANADA K9J 7B8.
> 
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> Subject: Glaciers in Burma
> 
> FYI
> Roger
> 
> The Irrawaddy is formed by the confluence of the Nmai and Mali rivers. 
> Both branches rise in the glaciers of the high and remote mountains in 
> northern Myanmar in the vicinity of 28° N. The eastern branch, the Nmai, 
> rises in the Languela glacier on the border with Tibet (China) and has 
> the greater volume of water