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Earth from Space: Tarawa, Kiribati – Space Ref
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Tarawa Atoll in the Republic of Kiribati – a remote Pacific nation threatened by rising seas.
The Republic of Kiribati is an independent island nation consisting of some 33 atolls near the equator in the central Pacific. The islands are spread over approximately 3.5 million sq km of ocean, but with a total land area of only 800 sq km.
Tarawa Atoll, pictured here, lies approximately halfway between Hawaii and Australia. Tarawa consists of a la…
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