Manuhangi Atoll FP (Repost)
Manuhangi Atoll - Landsat Image S-07-15_2000
Manuhangi Atoll - Marplot Map
Manuhangi Atoll (19˚12'05"S., 141˚14'50"W.) is a small atoll that lies 29 miles W of Paraoa. There is no entrance to the lagoon.
(SD Pub-126)
About the only substantive information I could find on this island was in the Seamount Catalog maintained by Seamount Biogeosciences Network. This catalog contains a number of interesting images along with map files for seamounts throughout the world. I use it occasionally to gather proximital information.
Additional information is available at UNEP Islands Directory - Manuhangi Atoll.
Manuhangi Atoll is reported to be uninhabited, but visited occasionally by villagers from a nearby atoll. Most probably they come to harvest copra or to fish.
This project was actually completed quickly. The Landsat image is too "washed out" and consequently much of the otherwise visible details are "washed out". GE does not have any imagery for this atoll, just a blob. The only shuttle image is of poor quality. So you work with the best imagery possible and construct a map. My EVS shoreline tracks the visible Landsat shoreline better than the PGS shoreline does.
Enjoy!
Labels: atoll, EVS, Global Mapper, island, Landsat, map, Marplot, Pacific, Polynesia, Tuamotus
