Dongkha La

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The Dongkha la or Donkia Pass(Chinese: Script error: No such module "Lang".)[1] (el. Script error: No such module "convert".)[2][3][4] is a high mountain pass in the Himalaya connecting Sikkim in India with Tibet.

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Painting by J D Hooker (1854)

Located in North Sikkim, the pass offers a view of the Tibetan Plateau. The nearby Tso Lhamo Lake[1] Script error: No such module "convert". is long and Script error: No such module "convert". wide,[5] and is the source of the Teesta River. Gurudongmar Lake, some Script error: No such module "convert". to west-northwest, also feeds the Teesta.

The first observer to record the pass in western literature was botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, who crossed the pass on 7Script error: No such module "String".September 1849.

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