Amazing atmospheric phenomenon over the most remote island in the world

Earth is an amazingly beautiful planet. The concentration of beauty in her nature sometimes reaches some unimaginable heights. But this is if you look at it from below, as we do. Imagine the beauty of a bird's eye view! Or even higher - because of the clouds! Another proof of this was recently provided by the NASA satellite, which shot an amazing phenomenon over the Atlantic - vortex paths, named after the famous physicist, engineer and aeronautics specialist Theodor von Karman.

Beauty for 267 people

Tristan da Cunha is known as the most remote inhabited island on the planet. Saint Helena is located at a distance of 2430 kilometers, and South Africa - 2816 kilometers. The population of the island according to the 2016 census is only 267 people, they all live in a village called "Edinburgh of the Seven Seas."

Interestingly, all the inhabitants are descendants of eight men (a Scot, a Dutchman, two Englishmen, two Italians and two Americans) and seven women (five mulattos and two Irish women) who moved to the island from 1816 to 1908. There are only seven surnames on the island: Glass, Green, Hagan, Lavarelier, Repetto (two typical Ligurian surnames), Rogers and Swain.

Life in real color

A month earlier, another satellite photographed the same phenomenon in a completely different place: this time, vortices swirled around the Mexican island of Guadalupe off the coast of California. In this photo, taken on May 24, von Karman's vortex tracks are shown without color correction, as they really are.

Wind and earth often sculpt together interesting and impressive landscapes from the clouds. For example, coastal breezes can contribute to the creation of low roll-shaped clouds, the so-called roll clouds. And some winds do not form spirals on the side of the island, as happened on Tristan da Cugnier, but stripes. These so-called "gravitational waves" look like ripples in the sky.