Lake Magadi (English spelling)

Japanese: マガディ[湖](英語表記)Lake Magadi
Lake Magadi (English spelling)
A salt lake in southwestern Kenya, eastern Africa. It has an area of ​​about 100 km2. It is located about 80 km southwest of the capital, Nairobi, in the Great Rift Valley of Africa. Natural soda is mined here, and reserves are said to be between 100 and 200 million tons. The soda ash (sodium carbonate) obtained by refining the natural soda here is called Magadi ash, and was once exported in large quantities to Japan during the Taisho era. The town of Magadi is on the eastern bank. [Uchiyama Masakuni]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
アフリカ東部,ケニア南西部にある塩湖。面積約100km2。首都ナイロビの南西約80km,アフリカ大地溝帯のなかに位置する。天然ソーダが採掘され,埋蔵量は1億tとも2億tともいわれる。ここの天然ソーダを精製して得られるソーダ灰(炭酸ナトリウム)はマガディ灰と呼ばれ,大正時代に一時日本に大量に輸出されたことがある。東岸にマガディの町がある。【内山 正邦】

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