Krakatoa
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Krakatoa, also transcribed Krakatau, is a caldera in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung. The caldera is part of a volcanic island group comp
A lithograph of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa
In 2004, an astronomer suggested that the blood-red sky shown in Edvard Munch's famous 1893 painting The Scream depicts the sky over Norway after the eruption.
Krakatoa featured in 100-rupiah banknote
Simon Winchester maintains that the 1680 eruption was depicted in this eighteenth-century Dutch etching.
Anak Krakatoa
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Anak Krakatoa, or Anak Krakatau, is a volcanic island in Indonesia. On December 29, 1927, Anak Krakatoa first emerged from the caldera formed by the explosive volcanic 1883 eruption of Krakatoa that d
Krakatoa
…is the only remnant of an island, also called Krakatoa, mostly destroyed by an eruption in 1883 which created the caldera. In 1927, a fourth island, Anak Krakatoa, or "Child of Krakatoa", emerged from the caldera formed in 1883. There has been new eruptive activity since the late 20th century, with a large collapse…
Anak Krakatoa in 2018
Anak Krakatoa, c. 1929
Anak Krakatoa in 2013, five years before the eruption.
Eruptive activity, 2008