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from its sandy beaches, or a volcanic island from its towering peaks is wonderful, experiencing them from above can be inspiring as well.4 O$ ]/ L; j. W3 C- A

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Atafu Atoll, Tokelau, Pacific Ocean
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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 + q( E9 e: A, F6 z5 G
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.
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An 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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on Earth, including a magnitude 9 here in 1952 which was followed a week later by Krenitzyn’s only historical eruption. This image was 9 E$ d9 z: f8 _9 R1 {6 M6 |2 P
captured by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite on June 10, 2009.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb6 y6 n- m) u- X0 L5 m* N# T

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; V/ z9 I: h4 h! P% P9 ztvb now,tvbnow,bttvbGalapagos Islands, Pacific Ocean
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( D6 r. [: H% e, ^1 pThe 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, . g4 Z% A2 p% q, l& q# K( D% Q
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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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,
/ c: f" j# _- t9 m7 V0 ithe 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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! H- W' Q' }/ o- \: I+ F) @0 hHenrietta 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
8 o; s' ~3 S& a) k' p/ X% E) Pyounger 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0 v) Y9 D9 a4 F5 X0 L: b
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Eleuthera Island, Bahamas
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. z/ o$ e, Y. v! F( p" H公仔箱論壇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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is 110 miles long, and in places just over a mile wide. Around 8,000 people live there.
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! N2 J% r; i9 H$ R% U7 KAugustine 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 公仔箱論壇/ ?2 h* K9 m- f- i8 `( l
40,000 years. This image, captured by The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA ’s Terra satellite
9 G3 C9 H- i' [+ E; Y4 @5 r/ _3 [& G' gin 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 公仔箱論壇% A  }' D8 O2 y  l: `9 @
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
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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
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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 tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb8 a6 N' x; w( L, J) H
MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite.Hawaiian 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。. Y0 J: u' r* u* B
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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,
& a6 `; d. z" S4 `公仔箱論壇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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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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  C+ H$ ^0 K# T0 l1 v/ Ytvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThis 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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/ \$ x* _, v9 R7 b" Xwww3.tvboxnow.compattern 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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Millennium Island, Republic of Kiribati, South Pacific Ocean
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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 5 ~7 ^, [& C0 a% t  V" j+ [; X7 g5 g( V
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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