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Islands are some of the most beautiful, peaceful, violent, desolate and unique places on Earth. While experiencing a tropical island TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。! \6 z0 m. \/ _) d0 ]$ _& n
from its sandy beaches, or a volcanic island from its towering peaks is wonderful, experiencing them from above can be inspiring as well.公仔箱論壇; h5 F$ o# Q% e8 |7 |( A
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We’ve collected images taken by astronauts and satellites from space of some of the most interesting islands on the planet.公仔箱論壇, }+ N5 I6 E' k- i  f0 l

; a, n2 \- ]; c; mAtafu Atoll, Tokelau, Pacific Ocean
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) |0 O1 w; m7 S6 Q5.39.217.77Around 500 people live on Atafu Atoll, mostly in a village that can be seen on the corner in the left of the image above. Atafu is just five
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Atafu is made up of coral reefs that surrounded the flanks of a volcano that has since become inactive and submerged. Like many tropical 5.39.217.77/ C( J# A. w2 m8 l$ D! P
atolls, Atafu is very low lying and vulnerable to sea-level rise. This photograph was taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station in January.
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Onekotan Island, Russia
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An island within an island was created after a big eruption around 9,000 years ago caused the peak of Onekotan’s volcano to collapse, forming
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Onekotan is in Russia’s Kuril Islands between Japan and the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The islands were formed by volcanic activity
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on Earth, including a magnitude 9 here in 1952 which was followed a week later by Krenitzyn’s only historical eruption. This image was
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Galapagos Islands, Pacific Ocean
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. W; l+ d6 d0 ~" }9 n公仔箱論壇The Galapagos Islands are the tops of volcanoes on the sea floor off the coast of South America along the equator. The volcanic activity
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2 M' d% E/ ^1 M) r1 w2 gtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe largest island, Isla Isabela, is made of the lava flows of six gently sloped shield volcanoes. The northernmost of Isabela’s volcanoes, tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb4 L' h4 a9 U$ n4 w1 G
at the top of the image above, is Wolf Volcano, which has erupted at least nine times since 1797. This image was taken by the Landsat
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The Maldives comprise 1,192 small coral islands adding up to just 115 square miles of territory. About 330,00 people live on the islands, 5.39.217.77+ I5 G- @! Y. f; v, ^: O0 O2 D3 z
the average elevation of which is a little more than 3 feet. It is probably the lowest country in the world.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb) u4 _1 q6 [, s* Q; Q' s

; c* u9 N( b; x4 s1 n" }2 V' yTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。This image of the North and South Malosmadulu Atolls was taken in 2002 by the ASTER instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite.公仔箱論壇1 A. }( T' H+ I# X6 p& l2 Q
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  R; _2 \+ s; J8 qHenrietta Island, East Siberian Sea5.39.217.77  d* O5 s6 M8 @8 n0 c
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This glacier-covered Russian island is just 6 miles wide. Beneath the ice, the island is made up of 500-million-year-old volcanic rocks overlain by 公仔箱論壇2 R. e/ a1 r# C# S/ s8 m/ ?2 l
younger sedimentary rocks. This image was taken by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite on April 30, 2009.
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The spectacular underwater formations to the west of Eleuthera Island are made of calcium carbonate sand that has been eroded off
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is 110 miles long, and in places just over a mile wide. Around 8,000 people live there.
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Augustine Volcano, Alaska
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The most active volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian arc, Augustine Volcano’s biggest historical eruption occurred in 1883. It has been erupting for
. P, f' A& I7 XTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。40,000 years. This image, captured by The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA ’s Terra satellite 公仔箱論壇" y* Q4 I+ I8 c6 w
in April 2006, shows a steam or ash plume at the tail end of several months of explosive eruptions.公仔箱論壇! x' G8 x9 j  V( o) P

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2 C4 ^: O" b/ D5 T1 EThe three largest islands in this image, and many smaller ones, make up Indonesia’s Komodo National Park which was established in 1980 to protect
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of two tectonic plates. This image was captured by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite in 2000.
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2 K! ^/ r5 P$ h. M% k2 }公仔箱論壇The Hawaiian Islands were formed by an upwelling plume of hot mantle material, called a hotspot. As the Pacific plate moved over the hotspot, it TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。+ s9 W! O, H# w, \
formed a chain of islands that first grew larger as they actively erupted, and then slowly eroded and sank below the surface of the ocean as the
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Today, the hotspot is causing active volcanism on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kilauea Volcano has been erupting continuously since 1983. The rest 5.39.217.779 P# T' _1 w/ I$ _
of the islands, which get older from right to left, are Maui, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai and Niihau. This image was captured by the tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb! M; J, m8 a; a5 u
MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite.Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean公仔箱論壇* ~* P6 {) [# F, a: \/ g6 j
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The Hawaiian Islands were formed by an upwelling plume of hot mantle material, called a hotspot. As the Pacific plate moved over the hotspot, " c$ o# f' w2 y1 u
it formed a chain of islands that first grew larger as they actively erupted, and then slowly eroded and sank below the surface of the ocean as TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。! h& A. N  L1 X% }' m" }9 y
the crust beneath them cooled.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。, Q8 C) G6 t2 p/ K: {* H

, V" a* ~" ^* {! e: E; ?5.39.217.77Today, the hotspot is causing active volcanism on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kilauea Volcano has been erupting continuously since 1983. The
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by the MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite.
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Alejandro Selkirk Island, South Pacific Ocean5.39.217.774 i/ M: Y, E+ O( Y! s- F" }* T
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This small member of the Juan Fernandez Islands off the coast of Chile measures just under a mile across. But its 5,000 feet of elevation is high enough 公仔箱論壇& o" _8 \  B) t+ K- t7 n+ t
to reach the layer of stratocumulus clouds pictured above. The result is a type of flow known as a von Karmen vortex street. This striking, curly TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。1 s3 F) G, D, J5 L8 Z. N8 z
pattern of eddies can also be seen in clouds, and fluids or air moving past rounded objects such as an airplane wing. This image was taken 4 {/ l  @3 ^' I& k
by the Landsat 7 satellite in 1999.
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4 h- u: }7 k& l. U! C2 N$ y- Btvb now,tvbnow,bttvbMillennium Island, Republic of Kiribati, South Pacific Oceantvb now,tvbnow,bttvb# T- Y# G8 ]% K+ d' u. y

' H, P; E# O4 P1 Ytvb now,tvbnow,bttvbAlso known as Caroline Island, Millennium Island is made of coral reefs that grew around a volcano, which is now underwater, leaving behind a tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb% e* Q% [8 \) l
central lagoon. The maximum elevation of the island is less than 20 feet above sea level. In the past, the island has been inhabited and mined
* n9 Z' W: m1 B- G$ F) Ufor guano, though today there are no people and it is among the world’s most pristine tropical islands. This image was taken by astronauts
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