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Islands are some of the most beautiful, peaceful, violent, desolate and unique places on Earth. While experiencing a tropical island - O, C6 `2 s: l/ ]" y6 g1 d% ~
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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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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Atafu Atoll, Tokelau, Pacific Oceanwww2.tvboxnow.com# L7 }( p/ L6 u( `: G: H- N

! n3 B$ n3 a8 O8 E4 E( ~  Q5 G3 q公仔箱論壇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
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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
) D, j0 ?1 R- w! D公仔箱論壇a caldera that subsequently filled with water. The island inside the caldera is known as Krenitzyn Peak, which is the highest point on the
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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 www2.tvboxnow.com; |, i& ~% s0 {, a) s
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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Galapagos Islands, Pacific Ocean公仔箱論壇3 M, O0 F0 w# c% j
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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
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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,
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7 satellite in 2001.
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, z% n% c0 a% z公仔箱論壇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,
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( l+ U8 M7 U3 mThis 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
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of coral reefs and deposited in dunes by ocean currents.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。2 B9 x! x# f1 H- x# a8 y
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This 2002 image was captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Located in the middle of the Bahamas, Eleuthra Island0 v$ u: e' P6 G" c& S
is 110 miles long, and in places just over a mile wide. Around 8,000 people live there.
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. V" b) z. |6 z% a; v' I3 b) [* Lwww2.tvboxnow.comAugustine Volcano, Alaska
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( @- h( F# ~9 x5 R6 EThe 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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1 X, r, v4 _9 T+ C, {Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia
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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。* N7 s( K  M; H& ^: @; V' \7 q5 c
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
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Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean
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* M8 U( q4 s: r4 eThe 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
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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.公仔箱論壇/ o9 p' Z* B" {9 j! J- e& r
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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 tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb; ~9 x' q# C2 K$ ]. x7 s7 n- k
rest of the islands, which get older from right to left, are Maui, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai and Niihau. This image was captured www2.tvboxnow.com- v$ F: ~& {, ^, Q
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Alejandro Selkirk Island, South Pacific 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。4 C" ~6 C7 @9 C0 v
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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 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。- j/ t, K& w6 m% _
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
8 n0 X4 R4 R) D' r: \0 gtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbpattern 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
# |$ ?' E' m8 d& \* @by the Landsat 7 satellite in 1999.
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Millennium Island, Republic of Kiribati, South Pacific Ocean
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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
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aboard the International Space Station on July 1, 2009.