Oaxus (lake)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 03, 2025 05:36 PM
—
History
Oaxus lacus, the modern lake Zorkul (or Sir-i-kol), is a lake located in the Pamir Mountains along the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
Show place in Google Earth.
Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59950
37.442911559, 73.6894691836
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Zarrinkul/Zorkul (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- None
-
None
lake
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 C2 Oaxus L.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Lake Sar-i-kol in Wakhān AFG
M.U. Erdosy, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Oaxus (lake): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59950> [accessed: 11 February 2026]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59950 |title=Places: 59950 (Oaxus (lake)) |author=Erdosy, M. |accessdate=February 11, 2026 5:15 am |publisher=Pleiades}}