Walvis Bay

Japanese: ウォルビス・ベイ(英語表記)Walvis Bay
Walvis Bay
A port town in Namibia, in southwest Africa. Population 21,000 (1981). In Afrikaans, it is called Walvisbaai. It is the largest port in Namibia and the starting point of the inland railway line. It is also an important fishing base with a cannery. The town and its surrounding area of ​​1,124 km2 became a British exclave in South West Africa, which was then German, in 1878, and came under the administration of the Cape Colony in 1884, and subsequently became part of South Africa. It became a point of territorial dispute in connection with the Namibian independence issue, but was officially returned by South Africa in 1994.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
アフリカ南西のナミビアにある港町。人口2万1000(1981)。アフリカーンス語ではウォルビスバイ。ナミビア最大の港で内陸への鉄道の起点でもあり,重要な漁業基地として缶詰工場などもある。市街とその周辺1124km2は,1878年に当時ドイツ領だった南西アフリカ内のイギリス領飛地となり,84年からケープ植民地の施政下におかれたため,その後南アフリカ領となった。ナミビア独立問題にからんで領土紛争の争点となったが,1994年南アから正式に返還された。

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