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ASIA
JA P A N RUSS IA
Island birth JAPAN Patchwork farms RUSSIA
The world’s youngest island, A grid of vast fields stretches across
Nishinoshima, is made up of two the Russian plains at the feet of the
sections which formed over 60 years Caucasus Mountains, near Stavropol
apart. The lower section was created Krai. The region’s temperate climate
in 1973 when an underwater volcano makes it ideal for growing grape and
erupted, while the upper part first grain crops, which are fed by water
broke through the ocean’s surface in trickling down from the mountains.
November 2013, merging with its PHOTO: PLANET LABS INC
neighbour soon after. Every day, the RUSSIA
island produces 80 Olympic-sized JAPAN
swimming pools worth of lava. Nishinoshima Stavropol Krai
PHOTO: GETTY
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