Scafell Pike

Japanese: Scafell Pike（英語表記）ScafellPike

…Reflecting this geological structure, the topography of England is divided into highlands in the northwest and lowlands in the southeast, with the line connecting the Tees and Exe as the boundary. Although the country is highland, the highest peak in England is Scafell Pike (978m) in the Cumbrian Mountains in the Lake District, and the Pennines, which belong to the Hercynian Mountains, and the Southwest England Highlands are also wave-like plateaus. On the other hand, the lowlands also include the North Downs, famous for the chalk cliffs of Dover, as well as the hills of Salisbury, the Chilterns, the Cotswolds, and Yorkshire, which spread out in a fan shape, and the clay-layered river valleys between them form a cester topography. …

From the Lake District

...It is designated as a national park, covering an area of 2,240 km2. The beautiful natural scenery of 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. In literature, it was introduced early on in 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 was the source of the Lyric Songs (first published in 1798). ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Scafell Pike" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…こうした地質構造を反映して，イングランドの地形はティーズ川とエクス川を結ぶ線を境に北西側の高地と南東側の低地に区分される。もっとも，高地とはいえ，イングランドの最高峰はレーク･ディストリクト(湖水地方)のカンブリア山脈にあるスコーフェル山Scafell Pike(978m)であり，ヘルシニア山系に属するペナイン山脈や南西イングランド高地も波浪状高原となっている。一方，低地にもドーバーの白亜崖で有名なノース･ダウンズ丘陵をはじめ，ソールズベリー，チルターン，コツウォルド，ヨークシャーの各丘陵が扇形に広がり，それらの間に粘土層の河谷が介在してケスタ地形を呈している。…

【レーク･ディストリクト】より

…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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