Siachen Glacier is situated to the
- East of Aksai Chin
- East of Leh
- North of Gilgit
- North of Nubra Valley
Explanation
Option (d) is correct
- It is located in the eastern Karakoram range in the Himalayas Mountains, just northeast of the point NJ9842, where the Line of Control between India and Pakistan ends. It forms part of the Union Territory of Ladakh.
- It is 76 km long, and its width varies between 2 km and 8 km, and it extends up to Gilgit-Baltistan. The glacier hangs at the snout towards OP Baba Shrine (a multifaith temple named after Om Prakash, an artillery soldier) and Indira Col (called by the Workman expedition after goddess Laxmi) at the northernmost point of the Saltoro Ridge.
- It is the Second-Longest glacier in the Non-Polar areas after the Fedchenko Glacier in Tajikistan. The Siachen Glacier lies immediately south of the great drainage divide that separates the Eurasian Plate from the Indian subcontinent in the extensively glaciated portion of the Karakoram, sometimes called the “Third Pole“. Nubra River originates from Siachen Glacier.
