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Sandy Plains in the Arctic

Unlike the vegetated tundra of its neighboring islands, Bunge Land is a barren sandy plain that also serves as a land bridge.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published October 5, 2020
Data acquired September 11, 2020

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Terra > MODIS