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Islands are some of the most beautiful, peaceful, violent, desolate and unique places on Earth. While experiencing a tropical island % _3 l/ p2 e/ {
from its sandy beaches, or a volcanic island from its towering peaks is wonderful, experiencing them from above can be inspiring as well.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb) \* z+ h8 K1 p
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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.
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|% m6 A# ?9 W+ h公仔箱論壇Atafu Atoll, Tokelau, Pacific Ocean
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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 公仔箱論壇4 w6 P5 f( l9 X* E! Y
miles wide and is the smallest of three atolls in the Tokelau Islands, a New Zealand territory.
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8 Q5 q, Q" D2 u( bAtafu 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,bttvb1 o( o: Z$ I# _- X
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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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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island at around 4,300 feet.2 Y J" w' E F! E6 a
3 I- U9 Q, f) l& Y0 P6 a0 lOnekotan is in Russia’s Kuril Islands between Japan and the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The islands were formed by volcanic activity tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb3 U. m! Z' T. G+ w! n# `
caused by the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate. Subduction can also generate some of the largest earthquakes
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captured by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite on June 10, 2009.
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The Galapagos Islands are the tops of volcanoes on the sea floor off the coast of South America along the equator. The volcanic activity + I* u3 ?- e% a: p
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! ?; r' a) Y+ A, L# x/ t& K7 X公仔箱論壇The largest island, Isla Isabela, is made of the lava flows of six gently sloped shield volcanoes. The northernmost of Isabela’s volcanoes, 公仔箱論壇& M6 h# l! o) \0 ~7 n3 Z% p
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 tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb3 ]$ y3 O9 V) A ~0 ]6 U$ E
7 satellite in 2001.
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Maldives, Indian OceanTVBNOW 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。% f' t" J# p2 o9 H' @
* E: z4 f( I3 ~9 H& a0 }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, 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。, M& ~0 o+ M0 }. G8 s
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 image of the North and South Malosmadulu Atolls was taken in 2002 by the ASTER instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite.
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Henrietta Island, East Siberian Sea
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~' y8 A- A- b4 c5 b: H公仔箱論壇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
- r; K) Z8 c) p. Q) z0 S& @" OTVBNOW 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。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* J( @3 A3 U7 w* C. e: ?
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Eleuthera Island, Bahamas
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# J1 I- e: U0 ?5 U6 ^' a# 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。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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This 2002 image was captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Located in the middle of the Bahamas, Eleuthra Island
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Augustine Volcano, Alaska5.39.217.77:8898& Q4 q& k+ D, @- i/ L0 `4 p
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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
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in April 2006, shows a steam or ash plume at the tail end of several months of explosive eruptions.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb* b- K) `* l l9 n9 {% D
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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。$ K4 m: X. T& X, G
$ b6 L& |6 j$ L; f/ D3 T+ _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。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 0 Y4 _! H1 q0 K% p" s; ?
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
! R3 g$ [( c1 ?of two tectonic plates. This image was captured by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite in 2000.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。) Z {8 X: i: I$ y
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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, it
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crust beneath them cooled.
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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 ; z0 \4 h2 c/ Z3 l1 Y
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
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" J$ O% L8 K# Y& z# {- ]. B5.39.217.77:8898The 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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Today, the hotspot is causing active volcanism on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kilauea Volcano has been erupting continuously since 1983. The
& @. W- u! w9 Wtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbrest of the islands, which get older from right to left, are Maui, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai and Niihau. This image was captured
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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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$ z, V; ~ P1 K Xpattern 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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' |% Z7 N% x" _* sMillennium Island, Republic of Kiribati, South Pacific Ocean
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* H \1 n% C. M2 G9 h7 D5 C2 `Also known as Caroline Island, Millennium Island is made of coral reefs that grew around a volcano, which is now underwater, leaving behind a
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aboard the International Space Station on July 1, 2009.
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