Also known as Xegar, Xêgar, Xêgar Chongdä
thumb|281x281px|Shekar Dzong in 1921 from Charles Howard-Bury|C. K. Howard-Bury, Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 (1 ed.). New York, Longman & Green, page 67 thumb|280x280px|1933 Shekar Dzong (fortress) and Shekar monastery painted by Russian artist Nicholas Roerich; destroyed by Chinese Communist forces during the [[1959 Tibetan uprising]] Shelkar or Shekar (Tibetan: , "white crystal"; ), also called New Tingri, is a town in, and the administrative centre for, Tingri County, Shigatse in southern Tibet Autonomous Region. The town has a population of 9,528, per the 2010 Chinese census.
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thumb|281x281px|Shekar Dzong in 1921 from Charles Howard-Bury|C. K. Howard-Bury, Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 (1 ed.). New York, Longman & Green, page 67 thumb|280x280px|1933 Shekar Dzong (fortress) and Shekar monastery painted by Russian artist Nicholas Roerich; destroyed by Chinese Communist forces during the [[1959 Tibetan uprising]] Shelkar or Shekar (Tibetan: , "white crystal"; ), also called New Tingri, is a town in, and the administrative centre for, Tingri County, Shigatse in southern Tibet Autonomous Region. The town has a population of 9,528, per the 2010 Chinese census.
== History == The early British expeditions to Mount Everest in 1921, 1922 and 1924 all stopped at Shelkar Dzong on their way from Darjeeling to the northern side of Everest.
2 mapped locations
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).