Astronaut Thomas Pesquet captured from ISS Hawaii Islands.
The Hawaiian Islands are an archipelago of 8 major islands, several atolls, numerous smaller islets, and seamounts in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some 2,400km from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll. Formerly the group was known to Europeans and Americans as the Sandwich Islands, a name that James Cook chose in honor of the then First Lord of the Admiralty John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. Cook came across the islands by chance when crossing the Pacific Ocean on his Third Voyage, on board HMS Resolution; he was later killed on the islands on a return visit. The contemporary name of the islands, dating from the 1840s, is derived from the name of the largest island, Hawaiʻi Island. The Hawaiian Islands are the exposed peaks of a great undersea mountain range known as the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain, formed by volcanic activity over a hotspot in the Earth’s mantle. The islands are about 3,000km from the nearest continent.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Thomas Pesquet’s Tweet
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