5 lesser known facts about the ‘Lake Of No Return’: Arunachal Pradesh

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FACTS | May 30, 2019:

The Lake of No Return or Nawng Yang in Burmese is situated at the border of Arunachal Pradesh of India under the area of Pansau, a border town of the Nagas in Myanmar.

The area is home to the Tangsa tribe and the lake has come to play a part in the development of tourism in the nearby Indian Changlang District, which borders on Burma. Here are five facts about this mysterious lake.

1. The lake gained its name and reputation based on the legends that during the WWII, the Allied forces used this lake for soft emergency landings and in the course, many aircrafts and their crews perished into the lake.

2. The lake is 1.4 km in length and 0.8 km in width in its widest part. It is located 2.5 km to the SW of the Ledo Road, formerly called Stilwell Road.

3. In one story it has been told that a group of Japanese soldiers returning from battle lost their way and arrived at the lake. There they suffered from malaria and died. Adding myth to legend, one author claims that he has encountered the name on a document written by one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, which he claims still hides out in the area.

4. Researchers say that people get caught in the lake because of the quicksand in the lake and the aircrafts that fell into the lake was perhaps because the returning pilots used the lake as a soft landing spot for damaged or defective aircraft. But facts remain

5. The lake is also known as "The Bermuda Triangle of India".

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