Alaska Peninsula - Alaska Peninsula (English spelling)

Japanese: アラスカ半島 - あらすかはんとう(英語表記)Alaska Peninsula
Alaska Peninsula - Alaska Peninsula (English spelling)

A narrow peninsula jutting out from the southwestern part of the state of Alaska in the United States, in the northwest of North America. It is about 760 km long. It is connected to the Alaska Range in the east and the Aleutian Islands in the west, and together they form the geographical unit known as the Alaska-Aleutian region. The continuous mountain range that combines the peninsula and the archipelago is sometimes called the Aleutian Mountains or the Aleutian Arc. The peninsula, along with the archipelago, has many volcanoes and calderas, of which the caldera of Mount Katmai (2,047 meters), formed by an eruption in 1912, is particularly famous. There are also many glacial landforms.

[Tsurumi Eisaku]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

北アメリカ北西部、アメリカ合衆国のアラスカ州南西部に突出する狭長な半島。長さ約760キロメートル。東はアラスカ山脈、西はアリューシャン列島に接続し、これらをあわせてアラスカ・アリューシャン地域という地理的単位をなす。また半島と列島をあわせた一続きの山脈をアリューシャン山脈またはアリューシャン弧とよぶことがある。半島には列島とともに多くの火山やカルデラがあり、なかでも1912年の噴出で形成されたカトマイ火山(2047メートル)のカルデラは有名。氷食地形も多い。

[鶴見英策]

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