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/ A* W3 ]! c0 w! F5.39.217.76Islands are some of the most beautiful, peaceful, violent, desolate and unique places on Earth. While experiencing a tropical island
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& X" w8 [; l `1 ~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。We’ve collected images taken by astronauts and satellites from space of some of the most interesting islands on the planet.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。4 D1 W+ R/ p! m
/ ?# J @- n) G. J* JAtafu Atoll, Tokelau, Pacific Ocean5.39.217.76% ^3 d. S: L! z& v
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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 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。( B" U" r) D. Z
miles wide and is the smallest of three atolls in the Tokelau Islands, a New Zealand territory.
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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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb7 j/ T, {6 X f; k6 n2 _2 \
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/ M" }3 K! L% u% |' f0 [7 HOnekotan Island, RussiaTVBNOW 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。; U/ B; W4 T" a, M4 t% X
+ w5 U& a1 V% R: f- \5.39.217.76An 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 ( Y& }/ T4 C+ B
a 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。5 W7 Y. @3 E$ e% q9 F
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) q7 A, |' g/ L0 h8 x2 kOnekotan is in Russia’s Kuril Islands between Japan and the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The islands were formed by volcanic activity 5.39.217.76( e( D# T' q0 s G& G$ m7 n
caused by the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate. Subduction can also generate some of the largest earthquakes 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。) ^8 {* X) X' F; \
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 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。! h% B4 w# V' M/ b; q( ] e
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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, 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。* s$ A( @2 i- g+ \" N1 a! b
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
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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, 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。( ]% }% q _ E' N- q! j
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.( A) J4 }; Z* V' b) A
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" L' n! Z9 Y$ j! \+ e4 E) 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 9 u0 A& Z# O( k$ t* F
younger sedimentary rocks. This image was taken by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite on April 30, 2009.5.39.217.762 h5 K1 y6 F4 c
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: M# J9 T: L- j2 I. g( itvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe spectacular underwater formations to the west of Eleuthera Island are made of calcium carbonate sand that has been eroded off
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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
" ^9 w6 u" k0 @+ p# t+ }6 `tvb now,tvbnow,bttvbis 110 miles long, and in places just over a mile wide. Around 8,000 people live there.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% j2 m: ]7 ~5 ?: E( W
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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
: d+ {* g2 b) d# b" v- C( n# gTVBNOW 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。40,000 years. This image, captured by The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA ’s Terra satellite
4 z P0 k, E' iin April 2006, shows a steam or ash plume at the tail end of several months of explosive eruptions.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/ ~( }' c0 P! Y
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2 A- ?' z" x8 ?. v; pLesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia
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4 E( Y4 |/ {- }9 r2 U2 ?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 公仔箱論壇/ I- v K3 [- A2 \+ h
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
7 N$ m+ t0 R5 C1 M1 }5.39.217.76of 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。6 f1 P5 U) J6 [
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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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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
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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
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& j1 M- N" h1 f/ vTVBNOW 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 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
- c. Z; f6 Z vto 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
7 w/ k/ ^" Q* m- }/ L% u$ T2 I/ {公仔箱論壇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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& |" c$ I# Y" A/ `5.39.217.76Millennium 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.
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