Shelkar
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thumb|281x281px|Shekar Dzong in 1921 from Charles Howard-Bury|C. K. Howard-Bury, Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 (1 ed.). New York, Longman & Green, page 67 thumb|280x280px|1933 Shekar Dzong (fortress) and Shekar monastery painted by Russian artist Nicholas Roerich; destroyed by Chinese Communist forces during the [[1959 Tibetan uprising]] Shelkar or Shekar (Tibetan: , "white crystal"; ), also called New Tingri, is a town in, and the administrative centre for, Tingri County, Shigatse in southern Tibet Autonomous Region. The town has a population of 9,528, per the 2010 Chinese census.
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- Instance of
- town of China
- Official name
- ཤེལ་དཀར་གྲོང་རྡལ།
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Tingri County
- Elevation
- 4330
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Image
- Shelkar-22-Stadt-2014-gje.jpg
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thumb|281x281px|Shekar Dzong in 1921 from Charles Howard-Bury|C. K. Howard-Bury, Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 (1 ed.). New York, Longman & Green, page 67 thumb|280x280px|1933 Shekar Dzong (fortress) and Shekar monastery painted by Russian artist Nicholas Roerich; destroyed by Chinese Communist forces during the [[1959 Tibetan uprising]] Shelkar or Shekar (Tibetan: , "white crystal"; ), also called New Tingri, is a town in, and the administrative centre for, Tingri County, Shigatse in southern Tibet Autonomous Region. The town has a population of 9,528, per the 2010 Chinese census.
== History == The early British expeditions to Mount Everest in 1921, 1922 and 1924 all stopped at Shelkar Dzong on their way from Darjeeling to the northern side of Everest.
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