[:ja]宇宙飛行士がISSから撮影した米アラスカのカトマイ国立公園です。
カトマイ国立公園は、アラスカ州南部にある米国の国立公園で、1万本の煙の谷(Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes、谷のいたるところから噴出物の余熱による蒸気が吹き上がっていたことにちなみます)とヒグマで有名です。公園の広さは、関東平野並みの広さがあり、公園の大半は自然保護区域に指定されています。公園の名称は、その目玉である成層火山・カトマイ山(Mount Katmai)に因んで名付けられました。公園では、ハイキング、トレッキング、キャンプ、山スキー、釣り、カヤック、ボートツアーができます。また、カトマイは、ヒグマ以外にも、サケ、ラッコ、クジラ、ホッキョクジリス、ビーバー、ライチョウが生息することでよく知られ、川に遡上するサケはクマと人を惹きつけています。
地上の様子はこちらです。
参考文献： Beauty Carved by Nature’s Violence
(NASA Earth Observatory)
地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH
[Earthview Wonders] No.1147: Katmai National Park🇺🇸
Astronaut on board ISS captured the Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, U.S.
Katmai National Park and Preserve is an American national park and preserve in southern Alaska, notable for the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and for its brown bears. Most of the national park is a designated wilderness area where all hunting is banned. The park is named after Mount Katmai, its centerpiece stratovolcano. The park is located on the Alaska Peninsula, across from Kodiak Island, with headquarters in nearby King Salmon, about 470km southwest of Anchorage. The area was first designated a national monument in 1918 to protect the area around the major 1912 volcanic eruption of Novarupta, which formed the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a 100km2, 30-213m pyroclastic flow.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Beauty Carved by Nature’s Violence
(NASA Earth Observatory)
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:en][Earthview Wonders] No.1147: Katmai National Park🇺🇸
Astronaut on board ISS captured the Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, U.S.
Katmai National Park and Preserve is an American national park and preserve in southern Alaska, notable for the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and for its brown bears. Most of the national park is a designated wilderness area where all hunting is banned. The park is named after Mount Katmai, its centerpiece stratovolcano. The park is located on the Alaska Peninsula, across from Kodiak Island, with headquarters in nearby King Salmon, about 470km southwest of Anchorage. The area was first designated a national monument in 1918 to protect the area around the major 1912 volcanic eruption of Novarupta, which formed the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a 100km2, 30-213m pyroclastic flow.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Beauty Carved by Nature’s Violence
(NASA Earth Observatory)
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:]