There are five islands in Qinghai Lake
(1)Known as Bird Island Xishan small island
or eggs (eggs everywhere because of a famous).Buha,
located four kilometers north of the estuary,
the island's first, Xitou elongate, tadpole-shaped,
with a total of 1,500 m, After the 1978
North, West, South and the land surface
exposed lakebed together. Bird Island gentle
slopes, surface by sand and stones covered
the southwest of the island, there are several
springs flow. There are two main separatist
quarter Mausoleum plant vegetables, Chenopodium
quinoa, ice and grass, sickle Oxytropis
Siberian smartweed, Kobresia, such as Kentucky
bluegrass.Bird Island is a unique bird breeding
in Asia, it is our first eight bird sanctuary.
Qinghai opening to the outside world is
an important place. Each March to April
,the migration from the South to the geese,
ducks, cranes and other gull nesting birds
have started to Qinghai Lake; 5-6 months
eggs all over the country, groups of young,
hot topic, a few acoustic Yang, the island
has more than 30 species of birds at this
time. A total of 16.5 million only bare
months, the height of autumn, the species
in the blue sky, cruise migrated to the
end of the lake 95. For the protection of
birds for people to watch, the Bird Island
Nature Reserve, established in August 1975.
1980 was classified as National Nature Reserve,
in 1986 the provincial government grant
600,000 yuan to build a tunnel beneath,
billets, security watchtowers and other
facilities for visitors to view, the North-South
Highway have arrived at Bird Island.
(2)Harbor Hill in the center of predictors
of South Qinghai Lake, about 25 km from
Bird Island, the island with a long, narrow
ends of the central and wide. 2.3 km long
and 0.8 km wide, with an area of 1.14
square kilometers, 3,266 meters above
sea level the highest point the island,
granite, gneiss composed of a spring eastern
edge of the island, drinking. Steep rock
formation exposed the southern fringe
of the East, West, North to slow beach.
Most of the island of sand covered with
ice and grass growth, Splendens, sickle
Oxytropis, Kobresia, in the garb of yellow
needles. Siberian Wong Ching, vegetation
coverage rate above 50%, concentrated
in the island edge of a cliff and gravel
beaches bird habitat.
(3)Known as Haixipi Hercynian Hill, Buha
is located 6 km north of the estuary and
with the Bird Island at the tip of the
Buha River Vagach. NW fault near the island
in the northeastern margin of the lake
is in a similar steep rock cylindrical
tower in the lake. Cormorant is the breeding
ground of the island's vegetation coverage
rate of more than 90%.
(4)Island Lake in the northeast, Haiyan
County, which was once the largest lake
island, about 13 km. most width of about
280 km, with an area of 18 square meters,
3,252 meters above sea level the highest
point the island. Sand Lake is a prominent
ridge surface formed by sand accumulation.
1980 Pratas northeast end of the peninsula
to become linked with the land and 33
square kilometers surrounded Island Lake
surface covered by sand, no vegetation,
fish breeding habitat gull.
(5)Three pieces of stone known as interpolation
isolated mountain in southwest Lake is
seven blocks from the intensive together
limestone rock composition, About 17 meters
high, with an area of about 0.056 square
kilometers from Bird Island, Harbor Mountain
20 km. Gap block growth of the island
only in aggregate, such as Artemisia Shelter.
Vegetation cover less than 5%.
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