As early as 1922, the volcano on this island had a large-scale eruption, and then fell into silence. The residents who had left the island at that time returned to the island. Later, airports and other facilities were built on the island.
But in 1981, the two volcanoes on Pagan Island erupted on a larger scale. This eruption not only forced all the residents on the island to evacuate, but also completely destroyed all the buildings on the island. Even the airport was swallowed up by volcanic ash and magma.
Just like the Rabaul Airport that Yang Jing had seen in Rabaul, only a little outline of this airport built on Pagan Island can be seen now.
In 2010, the volcano on Pagan Island erupted again, and since then until now, the two volcanoes on the island have been emitting some gas from time to time. It is not known whether it is the volcano's last gasp before becoming silent again, or whether it is brewing a larger-scale eruption.
Anyway, this island is completely unsuitable for human habitation, and no tourists are willing to visit it. An island that once had beautiful scenery was completely destroyed by a volcano...
Flying about 63 kilometers north from Pagan Island, you will arrive at Agrihan Island, the fifth largest island in the Northern Mariana Islands.
This island, like Pagan Island, is formed by a stratovolcano. The entire island is a volcano, rising more than 4,000 meters from the seabed and eventually emerging from the sea to form today's Agrihan Island.
Looking down at the volcanic island from the air, it is easy to recognize that the island is actually a volcano that is exposed above the sea level. The highest point of the volcano is even more than 300 meters higher than the altitude of the seaplane. However, at Yang Jing's signal, George pulled up the plane, and everyone could clearly see the huge crater with a diameter of two kilometers and a depth of more than 500 meters in the air.
In 1990, Agrihan Island also issued a volcanic eruption warning, and all residents of the four villages on the island were evacuated, but the warning did not come true and the huge volcano did not erupt. Later, seeing that this volcano was quite honest, unlike the two grumpy giants on its neighbor Pagan Island, some residents slowly returned to live on Liangshang.
The dense vegetation on this island also shows that this volcano has indeed been dormant for a long time, otherwise the vegetation on the island would not be so intact and dense. In contrast, the vegetation on Pagan Island in the south is like the hair of a bald person with alopecia areata, sparse and patchy, not much better than the hair gnawed by a dog.
When flying over the island, Yang Jing even vaguely saw several houses in the dense jungle near the southernmost coastline of the island. It was obvious that these houses were built by the residents who moved back to live.
The plane quickly passed Agrihan Island and continued to fly north for about a hundred kilometers before a volcanic island appeared in everyone's sight again.
As can be seen from the map, this island is Asuncion Island.
Like Agrihan Island, this island was also raised from the seabed by a volcano. The entire island is a huge crater. However, this island is much larger than Agrihan Island.
According to the data, Asuncion Island is 3.3 kilometers long from north to south and 3 kilometers wide from east to west, almost a circle. The volcano on the island is 857 meters high, only a hundred meters shorter than the volcano on Agrihan Island, and this volcano does not have a very deep and large crater.
When the plane climbs to a height higher than the volcano, you can clearly see the whole picture of the island. The eastern half of the island is very steep, while the western half is relatively flat. The vegetation on the volcano is also lush. After all, although this volcano is also an active volcano, the last eruption was in 1906, which is more than 110 years ago.
Admiring this series of volcanoes and volcanic islands up close from the plane made the slightly boring journey less boring. After flying over Asuncion Island, at an altitude of nearly 1,000 meters, you can clearly see the destination, the Maugue Islands, about 37 kilometers northwest.
The plane adjusted its direction slightly, then lowered its altitude and accelerated towards its destination.
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