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Nantahala 〔( Talk Like A Tarheel ), from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2013-02-05.〕 Township is located in North Carolina in the part of Macon County which is west of Wayah Gap. It has a population of 1,711.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.city-data.com/township/Nantahala-Swain-NC.html )〕 "Nantahala" is a Cherokee word which means "Land of the Noonday Sun." The area fits its name because in a few spots, the sun’s rays only reaches the floors of the Nantahala National Forest when it is directly overhead during the middle of the day. The Cherokee Indians are the ones credited for finding this region in North Carolina. They called their “town” Aquone. This area is now covered with water now known as Nantahala Lake. There is plenty of evidence to prove that other people lived in this area long before the Cherokee Indians were here. The evidence is that there are many Indian villages in the Aquone area and other similar evidence of other villages throughout the entire Nantahala community. The town of Aquone vanished and was rediscovered by a Spanish Conquistador Hernando de Soto in 1540 and then again by William Bartram in the 18th century. Nantahala receives a majority of its revenue from tourism. ==Nantahala National Forest== The Nantahala National Forest was established in 1920 under the authority of the 1911 Weeks Act and is now an assorted collection of noncontiguous protected land. The 1911 Weeks Act provided authority to acquire lands for national forests to protect watersheds, to provide timber, and to regulate the flow of maneuverable streams.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fs.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsinternet/!ut/p/c4/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3gDfxMDT8MwRydLA1cj72BTJw8jAwjQL8h2VAQAzHJMsQ!!/?ss=110811&ttype=recarea&recid=48634&actid=30&navtype=BROWSEBYSUBJECT&position=BROWSEBYSUBJECT&navid=110170000000000&pnavid=110000000000000&cid=FSE_003717&pname=National+Forests+in+North+Carolina+-+Nantahala+National+Forest )〕 It is the largest of four forests in North Carolina. This forest consists of 100 different species of trees. The forest covers 531,148 acres with elevations ranging from 5,800 feet in Jackson County to 1,200 feet in Cherokee County covering much of the western tip of the state. The Nantahala forest is divided into three districts: Cheoah in Robbinsville, NC, Tusquitee in Murphy, NC, and the Nantahala in Franklin, NC. A part of the Appalachian Trail is in this forest where a lot of people hike. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hikertohiker.com/hikes/htcm-hikes/nantahala-national-forest )〕 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「Nantahala, North Carolina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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