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Islands are some of the most beautiful, peaceful, violent, desolate and unique places on Earth. While experiencing a tropical island + u( R* `' ]; s4 [5 V; V6 r/ ?
from its sandy beaches, or a volcanic island from its towering peaks is wonderful, experiencing them from above can be inspiring as well.
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: W* G: E$ ?! f( n+ @+ g3 M+ uTVBNOW 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。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, Q! j w( N2 f* A8 ^7 W
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/ Y: d/ e4 w$ s4 h7 k0 m( v& v: mTVBNOW 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。Around 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 5.39.217.77& G# s* B* x7 D: r. Y# z; b- ^
miles wide and is the smallest of three atolls in the Tokelau Islands, a New Zealand territory.
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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 tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb% A8 d, m) D8 e" B/ B
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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7 v9 B- B6 L" ?( xtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbOnekotan Island, Russiatvb now,tvbnow,bttvb! H- H5 Q( e/ l5 B% f. Y% J2 g
. u1 x. R8 }& N3 p2 eAn 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 5.39.217.77( e6 Y. X+ ~* K A# w. ~8 v$ l
a caldera that subsequently filled with water. The island inside the caldera is known as Krenitzyn Peak, which is the highest point on the 公仔箱論壇# J5 y$ q: y7 ^! I
island at around 4,300 feet.
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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
7 Q! n2 A, ]/ p5.39.217.77caused by the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate. Subduction can also generate some of the largest earthquakes
8 e3 m& t. g3 F% V. e& H3 e. Xon Earth, including a magnitude 9 here in 1952 which was followed a week later by Krenitzyn’s only historical eruption. This image was 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。# \, A! m4 B& X: v2 J/ a Z
captured by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite on June 10, 2009.公仔箱論壇- ~( C4 G) e; s+ }' e; H/ u+ L
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$ |6 V9 R4 B1 ?; g, F) R9 J2 _The Galapagos Islands are the tops of volcanoes on the sea floor off the coast of South America along the equator. The volcanic activity
" |/ {) r0 F a9 H% Z- w1 a公仔箱論壇that formed the islands is thought to be the result of a plume of hot mantle material rising from deep in the Earth’s interior.
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The largest island, Isla Isabela, is made of the lava flows of six gently sloped shield volcanoes. The northernmost of Isabela’s volcanoes,
3 v+ U" P, Y* b$ jat 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 5.39.217.77$ R2 n9 M! E" @& S0 ` k& e( n* j/ ]
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the average elevation of which is a little more than 3 feet. It is probably the lowest country in the world.
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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 8 Y3 v/ F' x, y0 P: e) }
younger sedimentary rocks. This image was taken by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite on April 30, 2009.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb' y! c# g/ V1 w' V5 D4 A, w7 Z5 x
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0 F6 u1 t5 b+ w/ i! ZEleuthera Island, Bahamas
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of coral reefs and deposited in dunes by ocean currents.
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This 2002 image was captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Located in the middle of the Bahamas, Eleuthra Island
; R% c1 {7 u1 i" w5.39.217.77is 110 miles long, and in places just over a mile wide. Around 8,000 people live there.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb' G5 A6 R$ h2 ^4 w# I4 i8 c
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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
& C2 z, s8 ^2 e( a8 D) T. Dtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb40,000 years. This image, captured by The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA ’s Terra satellite
& E6 h3 L) A( U公仔箱論壇in April 2006, shows a steam or ash plume at the tail end of several months of explosive eruptions.
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Lesser Sunda Islands, IndonesiaTVBNOW 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。4 W8 r C- K; _
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The three largest islands in this image, and many smaller ones, make up Indonesia’s Komodo National Park which was established in 1980 to protect 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。9 P* }8 d" C' F: o5 M
the world’s largest lizard species, Komodo dragon. The total area of the park is 230 square miles. The islands are volcanoes caused by the collision 5.39.217.77+ s& h% ^- a: L3 [ @6 W6 x& C
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 m& S1 [: ]5 m7 e8 c( jTVBNOW 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。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 公仔箱論壇0 `) ?) V1 t- a
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 tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb% n7 h$ }; ~7 o( P7 ^
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 5.39.217.773 A8 Q: T2 U/ U
MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite.Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Oceantvb now,tvbnow,bttvb& R/ D. N: @" H O* j( t4 i3 C
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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,
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the crust beneath them cooled.
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. |$ r& o! ?# W& L& B4 CToday, the hotspot is causing active volcanism on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kilauea Volcano has been erupting continuously since 1983. The 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。+ b+ J/ b3 {3 _5 k1 K" T+ ]/ @0 x# r
rest of the islands, which get older from right to left, are Maui, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai and Niihau. This image was captured 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。7 o% | ?8 S r+ Q z+ O# V& f
by the MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite.
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Alejandro Selkirk Island, South Pacific Ocean
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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
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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
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Millennium Island, Republic of Kiribati, South Pacific Oceantvb now,tvbnow,bttvb$ r1 G" \) {! C4 C) n8 f) d
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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 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 Y0 E' L- I1 I2 Z, F" ^& b
for 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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