Camargue

Japanese: camargue
Camargue

...Many of the high mountains, including Mont Blanc, the highest peak in Europe, have steep rock faces carved by glaciers, and glaciers still remain today. The Rhône River, which collects water from these mountains and flows down, is as fast as a Japanese river and carries a large amount of sediment, forming a delta area called the Camargue at its mouth, and while it has brought former ports inland, such as the town of Aigues-Mortes, it has expanded the land used for rice cultivation and grazing.
[Variable climate]
The climate of France is determined by the dynamics of three stationary air masses and the warm, moist cyclones that originate on the warm North Atlantic Current and move in succession from the west.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ヨーロッパ第一の高峰モン・ブランをはじめ高山の多くには氷河で削られた急峻な岩肌がみえ,今なお氷河も残っている。これらの山の水を集めて流れ下るローヌ川は,日本の河川と同じく急流で,運ぶ土砂の量も多いので,河口にはカマルグcamargueと呼ぶ三角州地帯を形成し,エーグ・モルトの町のように,かつての港を内陸に取り込んでしまう一方,米作や放牧に用いられる土地を拡大している。
[変化に富む気候]
 フランスの気候は,三つの停滞性気団と,暖かい北大西洋海流上に発生して順次西からやってくる温暖・湿潤な移動性低気圧との力関係によって決められている。…

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