Saving Straddie’s Sand
After seven decades, sand mining operations have stopped in Australia’s North Stradbroke Island.
This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Saving Straddie’s Sand.
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