Arthur Douglas Carey

Arthur Douglas Carey (c. 1844–1936) was a British civil servant in India, now remembered as a traveller in Central Asia, and in particular for exploration in what is now Xinjiang.

[1][2] On his self-financed Central Asian journey while on furlough from the Indian Civil Service, Carey started from Simla.

[4] In Carey's words: I struck a bargain for baggage-ponies with the Tartars of the frontier villages on the Pangong Lake, and left Tanksé on the 12th of August with a caravan of thirty-one men and forty-nine ponies.

[5]They travelled east from Nubra, passing the landmark Lake Mungtsa (various spellings) and reaching Tashlik-kul on the edge of the Aksai Chin on day 17.

Then looping north they crossed the so-called Humboldt Range of the Kunlun Mountains, and made a way back through Hami, Urumchi, and Yarkand.

[12] The expedition ended in Ladakh, reached by a more northerly route than on the outbound journey, and the Karakorum pass.