Yueyaquan is a crescent-shaped lake in an oasis, 6 km south of the city of Dunhuang in Gansu Province, China.
The lake was named Yueyaquan in the Qing Dynasty. Mildred Cable and Francesca French visited the lake during their travels in the region[when?] and recorded their impressions in their bookThe Gobi Desert, "All around us we saw tier on tier of lofty sand-hills, giving...