File:British Virgin Islands.jpg

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English: This true-colour image of Tortola and its smaller neighbours, Guana Island, Grand Camanoe, and Beef Island. The islands follow a roughly south-west-north-east trajectory. Gray-beige urbanized areas cling to the coast while Tortola’s interior remains mostly green, an arrangement driven by the islands’s topography. The biggest settlement fringes Road Bay. A straight line crossing Beef Island gives away the location of a small airport. Tortola’s carpet of green suggests a lush rainforest, but the island actually supports a patch of drought-resistant forest, in addition to plants accustomed to more water. Tortola’s climate and land surface are well suited to raising livestock, but tourism and financial services are the primary industries.
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Author Jesse Allen

Image captured by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite. Image created using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team and the United States Geological Survey. Instrument: EO-1 - ALI.

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