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; A# E# L. U7 U! F) Bwww3.tvboxnow.comIslands are some of the most beautiful, peaceful, violent, desolate and unique places on Earth. While experiencing a tropical island , e5 z5 i8 P  v4 _) X1 }# Z* j
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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4 ]  o1 Z$ p4 U2 z8 |8 q' C/ b6 v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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6 S5 Y1 o* {6 {- T' _/ U公仔箱論壇Onekotan Island, Russia
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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
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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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6 ~7 J% s7 l! Y+ B" t9 }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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  I* w2 H# A. 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。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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- E1 D( x( h7 ^* Otvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe 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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, y6 l3 S  Y0 m( H, J! rtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThis 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 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。0 |6 a2 n' [0 A) Q1 V2 b
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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 ; _' t7 R4 D6 F7 J1 ]& Q) ~' p+ B
younger sedimentary rocks. This image was taken by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite on April 30, 2009.www3.tvboxnow.com! [9 E; W( P' s( Q6 b5 |/ g4 r. Q

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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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2 y* y9 D* g( y( D4 \; r8 L, i- z) wAugustine Volcano, AlaskaTVBNOW 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 a" O% [# w( p9 z2 l, r( 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
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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
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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
; w, m# ~* @. d/ T. R$ t- W6 X/ rthe 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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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
! p; K" T1 Q2 ?% Gformed 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
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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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MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite.Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean
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. y5 d5 U& |; s" @) E+ n8 t4 w. c公仔箱論壇Today, the hotspot is causing active volcanism on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kilauea Volcano has been erupting continuously since 1983. The
6 ~: i6 Y+ q& y% i2 J: 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。rest of the islands, which get older from right to left, are Maui, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai and Niihau. This image was captured www3.tvboxnow.com. P' k8 E4 ?" a; a; C, |' ^# ]* b
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Alejandro Selkirk Island, South Pacific Ocean
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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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( }+ n% L; A  M( m# \. |www3.tvboxnow.comMillennium Island, Republic of Kiribati, South Pacific Ocean
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$ A! z4 M8 z. G7 ?2 `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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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
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