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Balnibarbi is a fictional land in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel ''Gulliver's Travels''. it was visited by Lemuel Gulliver after he was rescued by the people of the flying island of Laputa. ==Location== The location of Balnibarbi is illustrated in both the text and the map at the beginning of part III of ''Gulliver's Travels'', though they are not consistent with each other. The map shows Balnibarbi to be an island to the east of Japan and to the northeast of Luggnagg.〔''Gulliver's Travels'' (GT), part III, ch I: Oxford World Classic (OWC) p140〕 The text states that the kingdom of Balnibarbi is part of a continent which extends itself "eastward to that unknown tract of America westward of California and northward of the Pacific Ocean",〔GT, part III, ch 7: OWC p180〕 and places it southeast of Luggnagg, which is "situated to the North-West"〔GT pt III, ch7: OWC p180〕 Gulliver gives his last known position (taken the morning “an hour before” he was captured by the pirates who set him adrift) as 46N, 183(E〔That is, East of London; corresponds to 177W〕)〔GT, part III, ch 1: OWC p143〕 (i.e. east of Japan, south of the Aleutian Islands〔OWC, note: p319〕) and was picked up by the inhabitants of Laputa just 5 days later, having drifted south-south-east down a chain of small rocky islands 〔GT, part III, ch 1: OWC p143〕 Gulliver also tells us that the island of Laputa flies by the “magnetick virtue” of certain minerals in the ground of Balnibarbi and does not extend more than four miles above, and six leagues beyond, beyond the limit of the kingdom.〔GT, part III, ch 3: OWC p157〕 He states the Pacific coast, where lies the port of Maldonada, is not above one hundred and fifty miles from the capital, Lagado.〔GT, part III, ch 7: OWC p180〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Balnibarbi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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