To the west of the lake lies the Spanggur Gap, a low pass through which the Line of Actual Control runs.

Henry Strachey found fossil shells of Lymnaea auricularia along its shores, leading to the conclusion that the waters of the lake must have been at one time fresh.

[7] The British Boundary Commission for Kashmir in 1847 placed the entire Spanggur lake in Tibet's Rudok Dzong (modern Rutog County).

(Map 1) The Kashmir Survey, completed in 1864, placed slightly more than half the lake in Ladakh but the eastern extremity in Rudok.

They coordinated rescue missions by joint teams in the event of a natural disaster occurring along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

[10] In June 2020, in the midst of major border skirmishes between the two countries, the tactical commanders met at Moldo to find ways of deescalation.