Heart Of Voh - Not A D&D Relic, It's A Swamp As Seen From Space
Friday, February 13, 2015 - 13:01
in Earth & Climate
Known as the ‘Heart of Voh’ for its proximity to the Voh commune, a mining colony controlled by the French, these Mangrove swamps along the coast of New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific Ocean formed this natural structure, caused by changes in vegetation cover. Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand made it famous by using a photograph of the heart on the cover of a book, The Earth from the Air.This false-color satellite image of the heart-shaped formation was captured by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s Kompsat-2 satellite on 1 April 2009. No undead lichs had to be sent to their final resting place to obtain it. read more