Ketchikan - Ketchikan (English spelling)

Japanese: ケチカン - けちかん(英語表記)Ketchikan
Ketchikan - Ketchikan (English spelling)

A fishing town on the southwest coast of Rebilazigiddo Island, Alexander Archipelago, southeastern Alaska, United States. Population 7,922 (2000). It has one of Alaska's largest ice-free ports and is an important trading and port of call. It is also known as a salmon fishing center, with a large salmon canning and processing plant and Alaska's first pulp and lumber industry still thriving. The town was founded during the Alaska Gold Rush in the 1890s and developed as a supply point for gold miners. It also prospered as Alaska's first port of call for ships from the mainland. It is also blessed with tourism resources, with deer, bears, and wolves living in the forests, and many great fishing spots. Many totem poles left by the indigenous Tlingit people remain in the city, and they are collected at the Totem Heritage Center and the Tongass Historical Society Museum, and can also be seen in parks.

[Kazuyo Sakuno]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

アメリカ合衆国、アラスカ州南東部、アレクサンダー諸島、レビラジギードー島南西岸の水産都市。人口7922(2000)。アラスカ有数の不凍港を有し、交易・寄航地として重要である。サケ漁の中心地としても知られ、大規模なサケ缶詰・加工工場があり、アラスカ最初のパルプ・製材業も健在である。1890年代のアラスカのゴールド・ラッシュ時代に町が創設され、金採掘者のための物資供給地として発展した。また合衆国本土からの船舶の寄航地としては、アラスカ最初の町として繁栄した。観光資源にも恵まれ、森林地帯にはシカ、クマ、オオカミが生息し、絶好の釣り場も多い。市域には先住民トリンギトなどが残したトーテムポールが数多く残り、トーテム文化遺産センター、トンガス歴史協会博物館などで収集しているほか、公園などで見ることもできる。

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