Talk:Chushul Chakzam

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Location?[edit]

The coordinates lead to a place on the Tsangpo with a modern road bridge, a disused suspension bridge and some stubs which may have been the foundation of an older suspension bridge. Since the place is some 260 km east of where the Lhasa river joins the Tsangpo, it appears it cannot possibly have been the location of Chakzam Bridge. The names indicated by Google maps fot that area are Jiaga, Jiagacun, Zanxizong, Pencuo Linsi. On the old Tibet map http://www.tibetmap.com/oldmaps.htm there are Pindzoling, Yeshung, Trashigang in that aerea. Google maps does not accept Jagsamka nor any of the names given in that article. So where is the bridges location? Waddell describes the ferry as being near a rocky spur which ran out into the middle of the valley (p. 309) and near the ruins of the old iron suspension bridge - Chak-sam. Could it be that the ferry and the bridge where a few meters above the modern bridge crossing at Geizhongjiang, where there is a rocky ridge at 29°19′38.31″N 90°41′9.56″E / 29.3273083°N 90.6859889°E / 29.3273083; 90.6859889 ? --AHert (talk) 17:13, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am replacing the existing location 29°22′36″N 88°00′15″E / 29.37654°N 88.0043°E with yours, as the existing coordinate from French wiki is about different iron bridge (built in 1739 by Lozang Peldrup). --Voidvector (talk) 02:10, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Analyzing the photos (e.g. this, this) and trying to match the outline of the mountains w/Google Earth, I believe your location was the location of the ferry. I was able to find a Chinese contrition to Wikimapia (29°19′49″N 90°41′29″E / 29.33028°N 90.69139°E) that specify the site of the bridge (as such also the monastery). I am not sure of their source, but the small island of the northern bridgehead about 150 yards into the water is still visible there. --Voidvector (talk) 06:45, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Chakzam" is not the name[edit]

Chakzam (Tibetan: ལྕགས་ཟམ་, Wylie: lcags zam, THL: chak zam) literally means "iron bridge" in Tibetan. (ref: Tibetan dictionary) If you google "Chakzam bridge" there are numerous other bridges in Tibetan speaking areas that shows up. --Voidvector (talk) 00:38, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I made Chakzam into an disambig page --Voidvector (talk) 03:20, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]