Where Is Siachen Located?

Siachen Glacier, one of the world's longest mountain glaciers, lying in the Karakoram Range system of Kashmir near the India–Pakistan border, extending for 44 mi (70 km) from north-northwest to south-southeast.

Where is Siachen glacier located Upsc?

Where is Siachen? It is located in the eastern Karakoram range in the Himalaya Mountains, just northeast of the point NJ9842 where the Line of Control between India and Pakistan ends. It forms part of the Leh district of the Ladakh division in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Is Siachen north of Gilgit?

The Saltoro/Siachen complex separates the Aksai Chin region (38,000 sq km of Indian territory in possession of China through which they have also constructed the strategic Karakoram Highway) has from the Shaksgam Valley (Pakistan illegally ceded 5,180 sq km to China since 1963) in our north and the Gilgit-Baltistan ...