Guanay - Guanay

Japanese: グアナイ - ぐあない
Guanay - Guanay

…the accumulation of urine and feces from wild seabirds on tropical coasts and islands. The name comes from the name of a bird called Guanay, a white-bellied cormorant (local name Guanay) in Peru, South America. The guano harvested on islands off the coast of Peru is particularly famous, and since the mid-19th century it has been actively exported to the world market as a concentrated nitrogen fertilizer, known as Peruvian guano.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Guanay" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…熱帯の海岸や島に野生する海鳥の糞尿が堆積したもの。名称は南米ペルーのグアナイシロハラヒメウ(現地名グアナイguanay)という鳥の名に由来。ペルー沖の島でとれるものはとくに有名で,ペルーグアノとして19世紀中ごろより濃厚窒素質肥料として世界市場に盛んに輸出された。…

※「グアナイ」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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