翻訳と辞書
Words near each other
・ Geography of São Tomé and Príncipe
・ Geography of Taiwan
・ Geography of Tajikistan
・ Geography of Tamil Nadu
・ Geography of Tanzania
・ Geography of Texas
・ Geography of Thailand
・ Geography of the African Union
・ Geography of the Alps
・ Geography of the Arab League
・ Geography of the Bahamas
・ Geography of the British Indian Ocean Territory
・ Geography of the British Virgin Islands
・ Geography of the Cayman Islands
・ Geography of the Central African Republic
Geography of the Comoros
・ Geography of the Cook Islands
・ Geography of the Czech Republic
・ Geography of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
・ Geography of the Dominican Republic
・ Geography of the Edge Chronicles
・ Geography of the European Union
・ Geography of the Falkland Islands
・ Geography of the Faroe Islands
・ Geography of the Federated States of Micronesia
・ Geography of the Gaelic Games
・ Geography of the Gambia
・ Geography of the Heard and McDonald Islands
・ Geography of the Interior United States
・ Geography of the Isle of Man


Dictionary Lists
翻訳と辞書 辞書検索 [ 開発暫定版 ]
スポンサード リンク

Geography of the Comoros : ウィキペディア英語版
Geography of the Comoros


The Comoros archipelago consists of four main islands aligned along a northwest-southeast axis at the north end of the Mozambique Channel, between Mozambique and the island of Madagascar. Still widely known by their French names, the islands officially have been called by their Swahili names by the Comorian government. They are Grande Comore (Njazidja), Mohéli (Mwali), Anjouan (Nzwani), and Mayotte (Mahoré). The islands' distance from each other—Grande Comore is some 200 kilometers from Mayotte, forty kilometers from Mohéli, and eighty kilometers from Grande Comore—along with a lack of good harbor facilities, make transportation and communication difficult. The islands have a total land area of 2,236 square kilometers (including Mayotte), and claim territorial waters of 320 square kilometers. Mount Karthala (2316 m) on Grande Comore is an active volcano. From April 17 to 19, 2005, the volcano began spewing ash and gas, forcing as many as 10,000 people to flee.
Geographic coordinates:
==Grande Comore==
Grande Comore is the largest island, sixty-seven kilometers long and twenty-seven kilometers wide, with a total area of 1,146 square kilometers. The most recently formed of the four islands in the archipelago, it is also of volcanic origin. Two volcanoes form the island's most prominent topographic features: La Grille in the north, with an elevation of 1,000 meters, is extinct and largely eroded; Kartala in the south, rising to a height of 2,361 meters, last erupted in 1977. A plateau averaging 600 to 700 meters high connects the two mountains. Because Grande Comore is geologically a relatively new island, its soil is thin and rocky and cannot hold water. As a result, water from the island's heavy rainfall must be stored in catchment tanks. There are no coral reefs along the coast, and the island lacks a good harbor for ships. One of the largest remnants of the Comoros' once-extensive rain forests is on the slopes of Kartala. The national capital has been at Moroni since 1962.

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「Geography of the Comoros」の詳細全文を読む



スポンサード リンク
翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース

Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.