[:ja]ボブ・ベーンケン宇宙飛行士がISSから撮影したフィジーです。
フィジーは、オセアニアの国家で、イギリス連邦加盟国です。南太平洋のフィジー諸島と北に500km程離れた保護領のロツマ島に位置する群島国家で、300余の火山島と珊瑚礁からなります。西にバヌアツ、東にトンガ、北にツバルがあります。経済は主に農業や衣料や観光で成り立っています。また、貿易は大幅な輸入超過で、輸出品は、野菜や果物、アメリカで人気の高いフィジーウォーター、砂糖、マホガニー、パルプ、衣料品、コプラ、ココナッツ石鹸、食料品などです。サトウキビ栽培は19世紀にヨーロッパ人が島にやって来たときに始まりました。
地上の様子はこちらです。
参考文献： Bob Behnken’s Tweet
地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH
[Earthview Wonders] No.1331: Fiji🇫🇯
Astronaut Bob Behnken captured from ISS Fiji.
Fiji is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean about 2,000km northeast of New Zealand’s North Island. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands of which 110 are permanently inhabited—and more than 500 islets, and the two major islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, account for 87% of the total population of 883,483. About three-quarters of Fijians live on Viti Levu’s coasts, either in Suva or in smaller urban centres such as Nadi—where tourism is the major local industry or Lautoka, where the sugar-cane industry is paramount. Europeans visited Fiji from the 17th century onwards, and, after a brief period as an independent kingdom, the British established the Colony of Fiji in 1874. Fiji operated as a Crown colony until 1970, when it gained independence as the Dominion of Fiji. Fiji has one of the most developed economies in the Pacific thanks to its abundant forest, mineral, and fish resources.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Bob Behnken’s Tweet
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