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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./ R6 r/ D" u- Z' u" i  i' n/ g
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Atafu Atoll, Tokelau, Pacific Ocean/ L% V$ Y% c* p6 y, Z

4 ?: s/ a: B$ g! X1 @1 HAround 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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  t8 ]$ C) m# ^7 P7 G2 s' ptvb now,tvbnow,bttvbAtafu is made up of coral reefs that surrounded the flanks of a volcano that has since become inactive and submerged. Like many tropical 公仔箱論壇: L8 ^2 _' ]" g/ t/ a2 J4 v
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.% r* K- X  d- m# q; B2 V7 E

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5 m$ m' |: k1 F3 _, k5 _公仔箱論壇Onekotan Island, Russia
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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
/ E0 C, i* @9 z( `! H2 gcaused 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
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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 公仔箱論壇* f+ x" P5 }9 m% W3 M7 i, O( U
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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The largest island, Isla Isabela, is made of the lava flows of six gently sloped shield volcanoes. The northernmost of Isabela’s volcanoes, % G4 `% ]! y) S# }/ w
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 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。! [1 W& g1 c7 I" E9 z+ W# \3 H
7 satellite in 2001.
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+ W# r1 Y; \) M+ a& Etvb now,tvbnow,bttvbMaldives, 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,
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) x+ v" @, Y  N( K/ Q+ v1 o+ F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.
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Henrietta 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 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。! [6 l5 o" J# Z+ T0 `4 ?% }
younger sedimentary rocks. This image was taken by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite on April 30, 2009.公仔箱論壇8 g/ O7 j! g- V3 q+ [9 @- ]

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Eleuthera 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
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1 T; W! \1 S) T( ~* \- Jwww1.tvboxnow.comThis 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, Alaskawww1.tvboxnow.com0 W% c4 R5 K# @+ P+ R# b

/ ^, o5 o( y, R0 H$ d0 O6 c) _5 f+ atvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe 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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  D5 }( }) A, Rwww1.tvboxnow.comLesser 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 ! y3 \$ U  ]  n! {% b4 P- s
of two tectonic plates. This image was captured by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite in 2000.
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) z7 J% t8 ?+ V# s2 J5 dHawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean
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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。  @$ g' X) k/ G0 h
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  _6 a6 T% B$ B. v8 ytvb now,tvbnow,bttvbToday, the hotspot is causing active volcanism on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kilauea Volcano has been erupting continuously since 1983. The rest
8 a% t% {! _, O, Q" Ytvb now,tvbnow,bttvbof 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 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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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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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
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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 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。5 {' C1 @( V! Z, 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
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