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Islands are some of the most beautiful, peaceful, violent, desolate and unique places on Earth. While experiencing a tropical island
# H8 i0 m. Q: G1 F! e  ^' A- u6 afrom 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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% i' w2 O: Y( a7 Y/ k' [/ otvb now,tvbnow,bttvbAn 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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; O1 z: z; Z" x, o. dtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbOnekotan 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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Galapagos Islands, Pacific Ocean
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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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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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/ r/ N$ C& K+ f6 @7 A4 L: {tvb 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, + `' I6 g4 D4 q7 Y8 E
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.
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" e9 n8 Y( v0 `( etvb now,tvbnow,bttvbHenrietta Island, East Siberian Sea
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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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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
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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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Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia
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8 g- K: ^7 E- H* v4 }( 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
+ ~. Y" c4 h9 d9 b$ sthe 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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Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean
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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 * N5 T/ s& e0 h/ U3 |& f( @9 O
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
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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 公仔箱論壇- N3 }# C) c  |% V! b' f3 ~! [
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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Today, the hotspot is causing active volcanism on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kilauea Volcano has been erupting continuously since 1983. The tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb( P$ J/ `* E7 {* {
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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Alejandro Selkirk Island, South Pacific Ocean
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$ f. h! }7 C, T: X: [! D' ~; o$ dThis 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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by the Landsat 7 satellite in 1999.
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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 1 a/ k- n, p) O' R0 S' m5 }% B0 a+ s5 o
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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