The term Indira Col was also applied to another, higher col 2.4 km further east on the Indira Ridge at 5.988 meters above sea level from where it is possible to descend north. In 1912 Bullock Workman named this eastern col Indira Col, after one of the goddess Lakshmi 's names.The Indira Col is 2 km east of the point where the Actual Land Position Line between Indian and Pakistani powers crosses the China border. Territories are contested on both sides. The land to the south of the col immediately is claimed by both Pakistan and India, and is controlled by India. The land north of Indira Col is part of the Trans-Karakoram Tract, which is controlled by China under a border agreement with Pakistan in 1963, but which India claims.
Indira Col is referred to as India's northernmost point, since it is India's northernmost point of control.Indira Col is a col in the Karakoram Range on the Indira Hill, in the Siachen Muztagh. It is within 3 km west of Sia Kangri, the peak of which is the tripod where Indian, Pakistani, and Chinese-controlled territories meet.The col is a saddle between the southern Siachen Glacier and the north Urdok Glacier, on the watershed between the basin of the Indus River and the Tarim Basin. It is too steep to descend quickly north into the Urdok Glacier from the col.