A resort and tourist city in southeastern Florida, USA. Population 163,000 (1994). Facing the Atlantic Ocean at the southeastern tip of the Florida peninsula, it is a resort town with beautiful sandy beaches. It also faces a canal connecting the Atlantic Ocean with Lake Okeechobee and has a port. The city's marinas are one of the largest in the world. There are factories manufacturing furniture, boats and yachts, electrical appliances, plastic products, fertilizers, and more. A settlement was built around a fort from the Seminole Wars in the 1830s, and it became a town in 1911. [Kanno Mineaki] Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information |
アメリカ合衆国フロリダ州南東部の保養・観光都市。人口16万3000(1994)。フロリダ半島南東端,大西洋に面し,美しい砂浜のある保養地。大西洋とオキーチョビー湖を結ぶ運河に面し,港もある。市内にあるマリーナは世界有数の規模を誇る。家具,ボートおよびヨットの製造,電気器具,プラスチック製品,肥料などの工場がある。1830年代にセミノール戦争時の砦の周囲に集落が建設され,1911年に町となった。【菅野 峰明】
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