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Although there are earlier descriptions in European sources of an island in the Sunda Strait with a "pointed mountain," the earliest mention of Krakatoa by name in the western world was on a 1611 map by Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, who labelled the island "Pulo Carcata" (pulo is the Sundanese word for "island").
Rakata (aka Greater Krakatoa) – Standing 813 metres (2,667 ft) tall, it was the largest and southernmost of three volcanoes that formed the now destroyed island of "Krakatoa" (the others being Danan and Perboewatan) and the only one not obliterated in the eruption of 1883. However, Rakata did lose its northern half in that eruption, leaving ...
Lithograph of the eruption c. 1888. The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa (Indonesian: Letusan Krakatau 1883) in the Sunda Strait occurred from 20 May until 21 October 1883, peaking in the late morning of 27 August when over 70% of the island of Krakatoa and its surrounding archipelago were destroyed as it collapsed into a caldera.
Erupción del Krakatoa de 1883; Usage on fa.wikipedia.org فوران ۱۸۸۳ آتشفشان کراکاتوآ; Usage on fi.wikipedia.org Krakataun tulivuorenpurkaus 1883; Usage on fr.wikipedia.org Éruption du Krakatoa en 1883; Le Cow-boy capitaine du Cutty Sark; Usage on ga.wikipedia.org Sliabh Krakatoa; Usage on gl.wikipedia.org Krakatoa
After the cataclysmic eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, Krakatoa Island lost approximately two-thirds of its mass on the northwest side, obliterating the peaks of Perboewatan and Danan, and leaving only the southern half of the island, including the Rakata volcano, as the last remnant of the original island. The lost area became a shallow sea.
The fine ladies and gentlemen of PopCap revisit Peggle--psych!After playing around in the world of Zuma Blitz's Kroakatoa Island for a while, you can almost expect those words to appear, as if ...
Map: Tom Simkin, Robert I. Tilling, Peter R. Vogt, Stephen H. Kirby, Paul Kimberly, and David B. Stewart, Third Edition (Published 2006) interactive world map of Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Impact Craters, and Plate Tectonics; Ward, Peter L. (2 April 2009). "Sulfur Dioxide Initiates Global Climate Change in Four Ways" (PDF). Thin Solid Films.
The 67-year-old was last seen leaving Saint Nikolas beach at around 1.30pm on Wednesday, setting off for a coastal walk in searing heat without his mobile phone.