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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Mountain pass in the Himalaya}}<br />
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{{Infobox mountain pass<br />
| name = Dongkha la<br />
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| elevation_ft = 18156.2<br />
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| location = [[Sikkim]], [[India]]<br />
| range = [[Himalaya]]<br />
| map = India Sikkim#India<br />
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| coordinates = {{coord|27|59|15|N|88|46|02|E|type:pass|format=dms|display=inline,title}}<br />
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The '''Dongkha la''' or '''Donkia Pass'''({{CJKV|c=东卡拉山口}})<ref name="White"/> (el. {{Convert|18156.2|ft|disp=or|abbr=on}})<ref name="Joshi">{{cite book |title= Sikkim ; Past and Present |last= Joshi |first= H.G. |date=15 October 2004|publisher= Mittal Publications |location= New Delhi, India |isbn= 978-81-7099-932-4 |page= 41 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=L7gIVNzkN2YC&pg=PA41|access-date=2009-09-11}}</ref><ref name="Hooker">{{cite book |title= Himalayan Journals, Notes of a Naturalist: In Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, The Khasia Mountains, Etc. |last= Hooker |first= Joseph Dalton |author-link= Joseph Dalton Hooker |date= 15 October 2008 |publisher= Forgotten Books |isbn= 978-1-60620-983-7 |page= 637 |url= http://www.forgottenbooks.org/info/9781606209837 |access-date= 2009-09-11 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120307215422/http://www.forgottenbooks.org/info/9781606209837 |archive-date= 7 March 2012 |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref name="Hooker2">{{cite book |title= Himalayan Journals, Notes of a Naturalist: In Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, The Khasia Mountains, Etc. |last= Hooker |first= Joseph Dalton |author-link= Joseph Dalton Hooker |date= 15 October 2008 |publisher= Forgotten Books |isbn= 978-1-60620-983-7 |page= 619 |url= http://www.forgottenbooks.org/info/9781606209837 |access-date= 2009-09-11 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120307215422/http://www.forgottenbooks.org/info/9781606209837 |archive-date= 7 March 2012 |url-status= dead }}</ref> is a high [[mountain pass]] in the [[Himalaya]] connecting [[Sikkim]] in [[India]] with [[Tibet]].<br />
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[[File:Donkhia pass.jpg|thumb|left|Painting by J D Hooker (1854)]]<br />
Located in [[North Sikkim]], the pass offers a view of the [[Tibetan Plateau]]. The nearby [[Tso Lhamo Lake]]<ref name="White">{{cite book |title= Sikkim & Bhutan |last= White |first= J. Claude |author2=White, J. Claude|date=4 May 1996|publisher= Asian Educational Services |isbn= 978-81-206-1183-2 |page= 89 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yOxI0aac7LEC&pg=PA89|access-date=2009-09-11}}</ref> {{Convert|6.5|km|abbr=on}} is long and {{Convert|2.5|km|abbr=on}} wide,<ref name="Krishnan">{{cite book |title= Academic Dictionary of Tourism |last= Krishnan |first= J. K |year=2005 |publisher= Isha Books |location= Delhi, India|isbn= 978-81-8205-259-8 |page= 89 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x8H_ZiKEg7wC&pg=PA275 |access-date=2009-09-11}}</ref> and is the source of the [[Teesta River]]. [[Gurudongmar Lake]], some {{convert|5|km}} to west-northwest, also feeds the Teesta.<br />
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The first observer to record the pass in western literature was botanist [[Joseph Dalton Hooker]], who crossed the pass on 7{{nbsp}}September 1849.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040223013559/http://www.sikkiminfo.net/mountain_passes.htm Mountain passes of Sikkim]<br />
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