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Islands are some of the most beautiful, peaceful, violent, desolate and unique places on Earth. While experiencing a tropical island
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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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb4 p% U; @7 I0 I! S

; x# N; r# V; m公仔箱論壇Atafu Atoll, Tokelau, Pacific Ocean
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! M$ Q+ z/ ]' hwww2.tvboxnow.comAround 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
1 T1 A4 X; e" O' _( L% M7 |7 W公仔箱論壇miles wide and is the smallest of three atolls in the Tokelau Islands, a New Zealand territory.公仔箱論壇1 m5 {, o/ `2 K* A! i: v' Q) {+ ^: y
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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
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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 www2.tvboxnow.com( N8 m2 x, b! m) K
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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 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。* K& q; [( B- u' S  n+ R
caused by the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate. Subduction can also generate some of the largest earthquakes
7 L( L" c; E+ w1 ptvb now,tvbnow,bttvbon Earth, including a magnitude 9 here in 1952 which was followed a week later by Krenitzyn’s only historical eruption. This image was
/ B9 O  |. V: ^1 E公仔箱論壇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9 `7 F$ _. K8 C& s/ J4 w: q: a' }: |
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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
2 b: ]2 ]4 b8 \! _  j$ l! `8 w4 h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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: A* j/ J, a+ c& E3 K/ [- WTVBNOW 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 largest island, Isla Isabela, is made of the lava flows of six gently sloped shield volcanoes. The northernmost of Isabela’s volcanoes, * P) t) a8 v9 w: W+ c6 P. D5 }
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 www2.tvboxnow.com1 y6 |- c" A8 V* {, G6 {) R! J
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# i7 I+ C" Z  N% WMaldives, Indian Ocean
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+ T- s& R3 t6 c4 L' m% qTVBNOW 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 Maldives comprise 1,192 small coral islands adding up to just 115 square miles of territory. About 330,00 people live on the islands, tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb3 D/ [" T( ^6 j: I% |
the average elevation of which is a little more than 3 feet. It is probably the lowest country in the world.www2.tvboxnow.com" T$ E, k2 [6 d2 \1 W; |* n

$ \+ C$ c: }3 t9 U* B3 J% T公仔箱論壇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# g3 \8 ~5 ^& _; M9 M  g( h

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0 c, a9 g3 V: p1 _; cwww2.tvboxnow.comHenrietta Island, East Siberian Sea
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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
( N$ B( v% P; l; L& jyounger sedimentary rocks. This image was taken by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite on April 30, 2009.1 E7 @5 _! G0 `* Q* l
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( b  M5 e6 {5 c6 Vtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbEleuthera Island, Bahamaswww2.tvboxnow.com9 |/ z3 x7 I; @) t

" w5 `) a; g5 K3 {: ~+ ?  [2 tThe spectacular underwater formations to the west of Eleuthera Island are made of calcium carbonate sand that has been eroded off ' {5 z; D$ k0 N9 M) e
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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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  {2 O1 T- X. ~  YAugustine Volcano, Alaska
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* X6 p- i" W) d( v3 L4 |公仔箱論壇Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia
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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 . P- k, K" o( T  {' a0 ^
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Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean
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$ q6 K# A7 V7 I5 T( l5 `www2.tvboxnow.comThe Hawaiian Islands were formed by an upwelling plume of hot mantle material, called a hotspot. As the Pacific plate moved over the hotspot, it
9 p  N* A' ?. z8 h' a3 B! qtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbformed 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 tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb. Y( c7 M+ S7 ]' H, G5 D" P* a; x6 j2 y
crust beneath them cooled.
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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 $ i0 K9 U6 N- O( r" a" {/ \
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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, 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。* |: i5 x" z- H
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。: X9 c* j) t$ O
the 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 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。/ o1 f: Z8 U7 _0 }( J; a
rest 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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Millennium Island, Republic of Kiribati, South Pacific Ocean公仔箱論壇; R  {# Z; g  N) r% e' K, l
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Also known as Caroline Island, Millennium Island is made of coral reefs that grew around a volcano, which is now underwater, leaving behind a ! Z& {. d, u4 m; K
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 tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb! l6 O# \( N" W' h3 I, t4 v
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 tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb- B; h  A* `7 W
aboard the International Space Station on July 1, 2009.