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After seven decades, sand mining operations have stopped in Australia’s North Stradbroke Island.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Video by Robbi Bishop-Taylor © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2020. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published May 7, 2020
Data acquired January 1, 1988 - November 6, 2019

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 7 > ETM+
Landsat 8 > OLI