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Islands are some of the most beautiful, peaceful, violent, desolate and unique places on Earth. While experiencing a tropical island tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb' C& v0 |2 I0 p- c- ^
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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Atafu Atoll, Tokelau, Pacific Ocean
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+ ^" M1 ]* H5 C$ H9 Otvb now,tvbnow,bttvbAround 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 www2.tvboxnow.com* u* f# a; `! y1 y3 ~! }. }
miles wide and is the smallest of three atolls in the Tokelau Islands, a New Zealand territory.
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( i3 h( q. {- f: Swww2.tvboxnow.comAtafu is made up of coral reefs that surrounded the flanks of a volcano that has since become inactive and submerged. Like many tropical
8 h/ f4 k- V5 x4 f, I# d7 j' qwww2.tvboxnow.comatolls, Atafu is very low lying and vulnerable to sea-level rise. This photograph was taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station in January.www2.tvboxnow.com( f+ N) c# s' K1 f8 v( T5 B0 q

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* }' O: n$ b* p0 v7 ~. |0 vwww2.tvboxnow.comOnekotan Island, Russiatvb now,tvbnow,bttvb3 N# e5 M( `  n
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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.
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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
* s4 |6 `3 Z& t0 g# {; G! ecaused by the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate. Subduction can also generate some of the largest earthquakes
9 Z% Y* K- B- v7 j& ?8 W7 ron 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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# c$ Y1 Y- b' d( A& Wtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe 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,
" ~4 r- [3 N6 w: Q; K$ O/ f7 C& D( Kat 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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+ F) d( R, |" H. h  k5 `& _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。Maldives, Indian Ocean
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) n: C6 S3 p1 GThe 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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% m/ l1 v4 M# i- 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。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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1 u; @4 l) ^  F0 ?) fHenrietta Island, East Siberian Sea" m$ S; l, b% n4 u' T/ n. K( |

. k4 R3 b( m  ^1 `/ K  tThis 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
7 o8 o7 p8 M. }" F# B8 J公仔箱論壇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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! l! j2 G+ n/ f% m6 K4 H7 W( F- V5 REleuthera Island, Bahamas
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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 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。' l6 Y" k+ C: Y7 I+ [# v. S7 T+ N$ [. `
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
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Augustine Volcano, Alaskawww2.tvboxnow.com. P1 N- H) m3 `1 x1 I. _
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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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+ ]! c. b0 ?0 `1 R7 K$ J$ k5 iin April 2006, shows a steam or ash plume at the tail end of several months of explosive eruptions.
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8 Q, x0 {' C9 M7 ^: u  A' Ewww2.tvboxnow.comLesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia) f) {0 ~! A: u7 v. U2 Z
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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
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9 u9 D6 ?/ B0 P) k" ptvb now,tvbnow,bttvbHawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean7 X$ w) F2 @2 F  {
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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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* P0 ]9 z6 [' A) g) R! T+ s. {! BToday, the hotspot is causing active volcanism on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kilauea Volcano has been erupting continuously since 1983. The rest 公仔箱論壇; x# S* w1 u  o. g6 e1 C* Z. F
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 www2.tvboxnow.com. C# ?, v) x" W3 f3 v9 D3 x
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+ p3 i4 |3 `" V& S$ ^' s3 q7 g( X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,
& _5 M6 a1 n& m9 m7 i6 C* x6 e) Qit 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
$ N% e' F9 B, C$ a! {& Dwww2.tvboxnow.comthe crust beneath them cooled.
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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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; n' t& X6 L6 Z" L$ N, fTVBNOW 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。Alejandro Selkirk Island, South Pacific Ocean  ~1 C8 W9 }# D, O8 B6 O3 b: r
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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 tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb/ r7 S! ?' O2 }- O
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
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0 |# O& Y2 s( N$ p. XMillennium Island, Republic of Kiribati, 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。7 b. e  }+ B: D6 m/ y$ V

7 S0 k3 O3 A8 p% F4 b) P7 NTVBNOW 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。Also known as Caroline Island, Millennium Island is made of coral reefs that grew around a volcano, which is now underwater, leaving behind a
' L3 \5 ^: R5 V( Y3 ^公仔箱論壇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
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aboard the International Space Station on July 1, 2009.