Sunset over the Grand Canyon from Desert View
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA
“デザート・ビュー” から
グランド・キャニオンに沈む夕日
米国アリゾナ州グランドキャニオン国立公園
サウス・リム
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Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Canyon National Park, located in northwestern Arizona, is the 15th site in the United States to have been named a national park. The park's central feature is the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, which is often considered one of the Wonders of the World. The park, which covers 1,217,262 acres (1,901.972 sq mi; 4,926.08 km2) of unincorporated area in Coconino and Mohave counties, received more than six million recreational visitors in 2017, which is the second highest count of all American national parks after Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Grand Canyon was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979. The park celebrated its 100th anniversary on February 26, 2019.
グランド・キャニオン国立公園（グランド・キャニオンこくりつこうえん、英語: Grand Canyon National Park）は、アメリカ合衆国の最も古い国立公園の1つであり、アリゾナ州北西部に位置している。公園内には、コロラド川の峡谷であるグランド・キャニオンがあり、これは大自然の驚異の1つとされている。この公園は1,902 mi2 (4927 km2) の面積を占めている。
Lake Toya Shikotsu-Toya National Park HOKKAIDO, JAPAN 北海道 - 支津・洞爺国立公園 洞爺湖
Hazy Twilight - Lake Toya Shikotsu-Toya National Park HOKKAIDO, JAPAN
かすみのかかった夕暮れ - 洞爺湖 : 北海道 - 支津・洞爺国立公園
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Lake Tōya
Lake Tōya (洞爺湖 Tōya-ko) is a volcanic caldera lake in Shikotsu-Toya National Park, Abuta District, Hokkaidō, Japan. It is part of "Toya Caldera and Usu Volcano Global Geopark" which joins in Global Geoparks Network. The stratovolcano of Mount Usu lies on the southern rim of the caldera. The lake is nearly circular, being 10 kilometers in diameter from east-west and 9 kilometers from North-South. The town of Tōyako comprises most of the area surrounding the lake and the town of Sōbetsu is located on the eastern side.
Lake Tōya is said to be the northernmost lake in Japan that never ices (with competing claim by nearby Lake Shikotsu), and the second most transparent lake in Japan. Nakajima Island (not to be confused with another island of the same name in Lake Kussharo) is an island in the middle of the lake which houses the Tōya Lake Forest Museum.
Lake Tōya was called Kim'un-to (キムウン (kim'un) means "in the mountain" and ト (to) means "lake") by the Ainu. In the Meiji era, Japanese pioneers named the lake Tōya after the Ainu expression to ya, which means "lakeland".
