First Stop: Tofua  

British Royal Naval officer William Bligh and 18 loyalists headed for this volcanic island in Tonga after a mutiny on the HMS Bounty.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published October 14, 2024
Data acquired April 23, 2022

Source:

Landsat 9 > OLI-2