NASA Photo ID: STS046-87-026      File Name: 10064863.jpg

Film Type: 70mm                   Date Taken: 08/08/92

Title: Melville Island, Australia

Description:

Melville Island, just off the coast of Darwin, Northern Territory,
Australia (11.5S, 131.0E) is a sparsely inhabited tropical island with
heavy woodland  concentrations.  The widespread and prominant smoke plumes
were most likely  set to renew pasture under open canopy woodland.  Soil
erosion is almost non- existant as can be seen by the clear and clean river
flow.  The offshore   sediments are coastal current borne deposits from
King Sound to the west.