[:ja]セルゲイ・リャザンスキー宇宙飛行士がISSから撮影した南太平洋のリーワード諸島に属する仏領ポリネシアのライアテア島とタハア島です。
リーワード諸島を最初に発見したヨーロッパ人は、金星の太陽面通過を観測するために訪れたジェームス・クックらのイギリスの探検隊で、1769年のことでした。クックは北西部をリーワード（Leeward：風下の意）諸島、南東部をウィンドワード（Windward：風上の意）諸島と名づけました。その中で、ライアテア島は諸島の主島で、山がちな島で、最高峰のテファツア山は標高1017mに達します。このためライアテア島の海岸は海に急に落ち込んでおり、遠浅の海岸が存在しません。タハア島はバニラの栽培で知られ、黒真珠の養殖やコプラの生産も行われています。北のタハア島とは同じラグーンに属し、近接しています。
地上の様子はこちらです。
参考文献： Sergey Ryazansky’s Tweet
地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH
[Earthview Wonders] No.682: Leeward Islands🇵🇫
Astronaut Sergey Ryazansky captured from ISS Raiatea and Tahaa Islands of French Polynesia, Leeward Islands in the south Pacific Ocean.
The Leeward Islands are the western part of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the South Pacific. The first European to encounter the archipelago was James Cook in 1769 during the British expedition to observe the transit of Venus. Cook records in his journal that he named the islands Society as they are in close proximity to each other. Raiatea, is the second largest of the Society Islands, after Tahiti, in French Polynesia, and is widely regarded as the ‘centre’ of the eastern islands in ancient Polynesia. Tahaa is an island located among the western group, the Leeward Islands, of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The islands of Taha’a and neighboring Raiatea to the immediate south are enclosed by the same coral reef, and they may once have been a single island.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Sergey Ryazansky’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:en][Earthview Wonders] No.682: Leeward Islands🇵🇫
Astronaut Sergey Ryazansky captured from ISS Raiatea and Tahaa Islands of French Polynesia, Leeward Islands in the south Pacific Ocean.
The Leeward Islands are the western part of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the South Pacific. The first European to encounter the archipelago was James Cook in 1769 during the British expedition to observe the transit of Venus. Cook records in his journal that he named the islands Society as they are in close proximity to each other. Raiatea, is the second largest of the Society Islands, after Tahiti, in French Polynesia, and is widely regarded as the ‘centre’ of the eastern islands in ancient Polynesia. Tahaa is an island located among the western group, the Leeward Islands, of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. The islands of Taha’a and neighboring Raiatea to the immediate south are enclosed by the same coral reef, and they may once have been a single island.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Sergey Ryazansky’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:]