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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[File:1874 map of Demchok area by Frederic Drew.jpg|thumb|right|280px|Kokzhung area in a map of [[Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)|Jammu and Kashmir]] by [[Frederic Drew]], 1875]]<br />
'''Skakjung''' or '''Kokzhung'''{{sfnp|Drew, The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories|1875|p=462}}{{efn|Alternative spellings include '''Kuk-jung''',{{sfnp|Moorcroft & Trebeck, Travels in the Himalayan Provinces, Vol. 1|1841|pp=362–363}} and '''Kag-jung'''{{sfnp|Moorcroft & Trebeck, Travels in the Himalayan Provinces, Vol. 1|1841|pp=439–440}}}} is 45–kilometer long pasture land along the Indus River valley in [[Ladakh|Southern Ladakh]].<ref name=Stobdan/> It is traditionally used by [[nomad]]s of nearby villages such as [[Chushul]] and [[Nyoma]] as well as [[Rupshu]]. The Skakung pasture land can be used year-round because it rarely snows in the Indus Valley.<ref><br />
{{harvp|Drew, The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories|1875}}: "At Dora falls hardly any snow. This is why the place is chosen for winter quarters, the sheep and the cattle being thus able to graze on the extensive though thin pasture found on the flat."<br />
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{{citation |last=I︠U︡sov |first=B. V. |title=Physical Geography of Tibet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qU_WAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA138 |year=1959 |publisher=U.S. Joint Publications Research Service |p=138}}: "The hills are almost naked and only down below, at the foot, is there a grassy cover which, despite its scantiness, is used by nomadic cattle raisers the year round – thanks to the snowless winter."<br />
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According to Ladakhi Indian diplomat [[Phunchok Stobdan]], Skakjung went from being an Indian-administered area until the mid-1980s to a completely Chinese-administered area by 2008.<ref name=Stobdan>{{Cite web|last=Stobdan|first=P.|author-link=Phunchok Stobdan|date=26 April 2013|title=The Ladakh drift|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/the-ladakh-drift/1107668/2|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-30|website=archive.indianexpress.com}}</ref><br />
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== Bibliography ==<br />
* {{citation |last=Drew |first=Frederic |title=The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories: A Geographical Account |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49165 |year=1875 |publisher=E. Stanford |via=archive.org |ref={{sfnref|Drew, The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories|1875}}}}<br />
* {{citation |last1=Moorcroft |first1=William |last2=Trebeck |first2=George |title=Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Punjab in Ladakh and Kashmir: In Peshawar, Kabul, Kunduz and Bokhara from 1819 to 1825, Volume 1 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284643 |via=archive.org |year=1841 |location=London |publisher=John Murray |isbn=978-81-206-0497-1 |ref={{sfnref|Moorcroft & Trebeck, Travels in the Himalayan Provinces, Vol. 1|1841}}}}<br />
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