Lake District

Japanese: レーク･ディストリクト（英語表記）Lake District

The Lake District is located in the southwest of Cumbria, in the northwest of England, United Kingdom. It has been designated a national park, covering an area of 2,240 km2. The beautiful natural scenery of the mountains, valleys and lakes, including England's largest lake Windermere and its highest peak, Scafell Pike (978m), along with the scattered historical sites and ruins, attracts many tourists, climbers and literature lovers. Literary works also introduced the area early on, such as T. Gray's Journal of a Journey in the Lake District (1769), and in the 19th century it became a poetic source for the "lake poets" such as Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, and inspired the Lyric Songs (first published in 1798).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

イギリス，イングランド北西部，カンブリア州南西部の湖水地方。国立公園に指定されており，その面積は2240km2。イングランド最大の湖ウィンダミアや最高峰スコーフェル山Scafell Pike(978m)を含む山･谷･湖の織りなす美しい自然の展開は，点在する史跡や廃墟とともに，多くの観光客，登山家，文学愛好者をひきよせている。文学的にも，いち早くT.グレー《湖水地方旅の日記》(1769)などで紹介され，19世紀にはワーズワース，コールリジ，サウジーらの〈湖畔詩人〉の詩的源泉となり，《抒情歌謡集》(初版1798)を生むもととなった。

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