| has gloss | eng: The Siahan Range (Lat 27.41667 Long 64.5) from the term applied to the western extremity of the range, is the name which may be given to the long ridge which separate Kharan from the valley of the Rakshan River and eventually disappears westward in the hills of Iranian Balochistan. The range has never been thoroughly explored. It consists of two ridges; that on the south runs west-south-west from a point near Shireza; on the north a parallel one starts from the desert east of Washuk in Kharan and tends westward toward Dizzak in Iran, where it is known as the Siahan or the Siahan koh. It is from this range that the name for the whole mass has been taken. It forms the main ridge at the western extremity of the mass, but on the east its place has as main ridge is taken by the range on the south. |