Out of the Blue: Islands Seen From Space

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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- c/ w) Z8 u( e; q8 P# W! o) j8 s
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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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
" O4 m6 ^. b* l% K* w# Qatolls, 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( f# Z( ~3 H6 [, {' h5 J0 u

$ T: |- ?% p5 y  e: xos.tvboxnow.comAn 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
8 O" c+ Q, t. J( j% ]& @. X" p  ea caldera that subsequently filled with water. The island inside the caldera is known as Krenitzyn Peak, which is the highest point on 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。. F$ p/ n$ c7 g: m9 P" g3 |7 _2 N% X
island at around 4,300 feet.9 T/ g3 I0 i; m! j- Y( |) h

  C/ \, t& v1 ROnekotan 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,bttvb' E1 D2 T7 S2 F$ N' f
caused by the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate. Subduction can also generate some of the largest earthquakes 4 r9 h) O8 G& w, L6 z
on 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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# H" E& I7 P1 p* rThe Galapagos Islands are the tops of volcanoes on the sea floor off the coast of South America along the equator. The volcanic activity os.tvboxnow.com6 K. o' R- G" C" G! N( Q4 C
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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3 n! n& |5 l4 E( KThe largest island, Isla Isabela, is made of the lava flows of six gently sloped shield volcanoes. The northernmost of Isabela’s volcanoes, 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。( l: k0 ]; P& T! i  a
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,bttvb$ z  r. w8 F% S
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Maldives, Indian Ocean
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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, os.tvboxnow.com9 Y7 S/ H, H6 ]1 p- g- ~) ]9 f) A, V; ~
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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb, q# x9 j2 L  k0 i  f1 P
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Henrietta Island, East Siberian SeaTVBNOW 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。; M3 v; [- W. ^

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
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Eleuthera Island, Bahamas

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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
0 a! k* [2 L" o9 K2 K2 P1 r, t1 v. q2 Jis 110 miles long, and in places just over a mile wide. Around 8,000 people live there.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb! T4 t* h- I2 N. h/ W7 I  _
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Augustine Volcano, Alaska
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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 * C1 `# ?. s7 C+ |, W
40,000 years. This image, captured by The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA ’s Terra satellite os.tvboxnow.com2 U2 Z( C3 c& a3 z
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, Indonesia公仔箱論壇+ T" L, f; ~- e6 w% C3 R( H

7 G8 A, |$ p; N0 ]7 r) z! @0 y, [3 a$ jThe three largest islands in this image, and many smaller ones, make up Indonesia’s Komodo National Park which was established in 1980 to protect
/ C' J. x7 W5 [: q) bos.tvboxnow.comthe 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 tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb8 T# b* D$ O6 J' L" d* @/ g% |
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。$ |- ^3 r$ L5 p% K2 K
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Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Oceanos.tvboxnow.com# E- M; d- Y- f) S  S
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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 7 b3 s$ o4 p* B- _
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 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。" ^) p8 Q9 e) ]; N
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
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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 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 , S+ l- u) k) d* U2 h( G
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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 公仔箱論壇& t4 J7 z6 d( m9 }9 c. {
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。- J4 [6 z, Y3 P) j2 ~) s$ q
by the MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite.公仔箱論壇0 l, C5 R6 t3 R4 ^% j
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# Q7 n( @& y4 s) R公仔箱論壇Alejandro Selkirk Island, South Pacific Oceantvb now,tvbnow,bttvb; ]+ T& p' s3 R7 z7 B

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 公仔箱論壇1 K/ T4 g  b# G5 Z$ y
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 公仔箱論壇  w5 I/ g- C& T1 s  H! a
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 公仔箱論壇- L. l; j7 N' z
by the Landsat 7 satellite in 1999.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb9 k8 f3 Q/ C9 o% P
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Millennium Island, Republic of Kiribati, South Pacific Ocean* e& m7 |  _) \0 l0 p

  |6 o' x8 p3 z7 j0 s9 @/ P7 IAlso known as Caroline Island, Millennium Island is made of coral reefs that grew around a volcano, which is now underwater, leaving behind a
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 os.tvboxnow.com8 b; a5 M+ Z! \- ^/ y
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 - ?7 _- ?- n2 X6 C7 R$ K
aboard the International Space Station on July 1, 2009.