selengaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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Selenga

1. A river in Mongolia and Russia that flows into Baikal Lake.
   • 1841, Scanderoon - Signet:

     From this range another branches off at the source of the river Vitima, near 113° E. long., which runs to the south-west, separating the rivers which fall into the Amur from those which run westward to the Selenga.

   • 1874, Sir Clements Robert Markham, The Geographical Magazine, page 111:

     The western extremity of this region, namely the territory lying to the west of the Selenga, and between the frontier and the southern end of Baikal, presents the appearance of a table-land, with a height of about 20oo feet,

   • 1999, T. Petr, Fish and Fisheries at Higher Altitudes: Asia, Food & Agriculture Org., →ISBN, page 195:

     This migration coincides with summer floods in the Selenga. With declining water temperature the migration stops. Sturgeons have often been observed to overwinter in deep pools of the Selenga and its tributaries.

   • 2017 March 13, Neil MacFarquhar, “A Russian Lake’s Future Hangs on Tourists and Toilets”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 March 2017, Europe‎:

     The chemicals abandoned when the paper mill closed are seeping into the ground water and will eventually contaminate the lake, according to a study by the Irkutsk region’s Ministry of Natural Resources. Plans by Mongolia to dam the Selenga River, which flows into the lake, are also a Russian concern.

関連する語

• Novoselenginsk
• Selenginsk

アナグラム

• Angeles, Leganés, Neagles, Senegal