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Shipton's Arch
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Shipton's Arch, or Tushuk Tash (Pierced Rock in Uighur), is a conglomerate (geology)|conglomerate natural arch, located to the West-northwest of Kashgar, in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. This is very probably the world's highest natural arch. It was discovered in 1947 by Great Britain|English mountaineer Eric Shipton, while he was traveling between Tashkent and Kashgar and reported by him in his book Mountains of Tartary. The arch once figured in the Guinness Book of Records for its exceptional height, but editors of the book could not locate the arch exactly, so the listing was dropped. It was only as recently as May 2000 that an expedition sponsored by National Geographic finally rediscovered the arch.
The height of the arch is unofficially estimated to be 457 m, slightly higher than the height of the Empire State Building. The span of the arch is roughly 54 m.
Category:People's Republic of China
Category:Natural arches
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