Australia Day - Australia Day

Japanese: オーストラリア・デー - おーすとらりあでー
Australia Day - Australia Day

…778 convicts, including 192 women and 12 children, arrived at Botany Bay, and eight days later, on the 26th, they found a better site a few miles north at Sydney Cove in Port Jackson Bay, where they began their settlement (January 26th is now a national holiday called Australia Day). The main reason for the settlement was the loss of the penal colonies with the independence of the American colonies (1776). …

*Some of the terms used in reference to Australia Day are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…そのうち囚人778名,うち女囚192名。子ども12名)がボタニー湾に到着,8日後の26日,よりよい入植地を数マイル北にあるポート・ジャクソン湾内のシドニー・コーブに見いだし,入植を開始した(1月26日は現在オーストラリア・デーと呼ばれる祝日になっている)。入植のおもな理由は,アメリカ植民地の独立(1776)で流刑入植地を失ったためであった。…

※「オーストラリア・デー」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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