Merak is a village on the southern banks of

Pangong Tso Pangong Tso or Pangong Lake (; zh, s=班公错, p=Bān gōng cuò; ) is an endorheic lake spanning eastern Ladakh and Ngari Prefecture, West Tibet situated at an elevation of . It is long and divided into five sublakes, called ''Pangong Tso' ...

, near

Spangmik Spangmik is a settlement on the southern bank of the Pangong Lake in Ladakh, India. It is located between Lukung and Man. Tourists visiting the Pangong Lake in India are allowed to travel up to Spangmik, beyond which it is considered sensitive ...

on the south India-China border in the

Leh District Leh district is a district in Indian-administered Ladakh in the Kashmir#Dispute, disputed Kashmir-region. The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by the WP:T ...

Ladakh Ladakh () is a region administered by India as a union territory and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a Kashmir#Kashmir dispute, dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India an ...

Location

Merak is situated 176 kilometers east of

Leh Leh () is a city in Indian-administered Ladakh in the Kashmir#Kashmir_dispute, disputed Kashmir region. The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by the WP:TE ...

, on the southern banks of

. It is directly opposite to Finger 3 which is located on the northern bank of the lake.

History

In 2018, a telescope was installed to study solar chromosphere at Indian Astronomical Observatory, Merak. The village is also the proposed site for National Large Solar Telescope (NLST), a Gregorian multi-purpose open telescope. Stable

Auroral An aurora ( aurorae or auroras), also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly observed in polar regions of Earth, high-latitude ...

Red (SAR) arcs were observed in Merak in November 2023 and during the May 2024 solar storms. In 2021, the village got its first tap water supply. Also,

BSNL Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (commonly known as BSNL) () is an Indian central public sector undertaking, under the ownership of Department of Telecommunications, which is part of the Ministry of Communications, Government of India with its he ...

, a state-run telecom service provider got approval from

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for a 25-km optical fibre cable link between Merak and

Chushul Chushul is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India. It is located in the Durbuk tehsil, in the area known as "Chushul Valley", south of the Pangong Lake and west of the Spanggur Lake. The Line of Actual Control with China runs about 5 ...

for civilian telecom traffic.

Gallery

File:Merak.police.jpg, Police check-post,

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(October 2016) File:Merak,see.JPG, View of

from Merak village (October 2016) File:Merak.town.JPG, Merak village (October 2016) File:Merak.ladakh.JPG, Merak village (October 2016) File:Merak.permit.JPG, Police signpost, Merak (October 2016)

References

Villages in Durbuk tehsil {{Ladakh-geo-stub

Location

History

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See also

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