Sebuku, Sumatra
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Sebuku is an island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra. It is one of the larger islands in the strait and lies just 2.5 km to the north of Sebesi and 2.3 kilometres south of Sumatra. It is a
A panoramic montage of Sebuku Island
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.