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- a small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra; its violent eruption in 1883 was the greatest in recorded history
How To Use Krakatoa In A Sentence
- As I sucked the iceberg piece, contemplating its ancientness, trying to taste the armor of Caesar or the ash of Krakatoa in infinitesimal traces, the pristine cold water seemed to evaporate through my membranes with no intervening stage.
- In 1883, Krakatoa's volcano exploded so violently that the sound was said to have been heard 3,000 miles away.
- In late August, after rumbling and smoking for many months, Krakatoa exploded four times and basically blew itself apart.
- ‘That morning there was no dawn on Krakatoa,’ wrote Rogier Verbeek, the scientist whose work would later lay the foundations of volcanology.
- This tsunami, with breakers estimated at 10 metres, was small compared to the wave caused by the exploding volcano Krakatoa on August 23, 1883.
- In popular predecessors like "The Professor and the Madman" and "Krakatoa," Winchester chose subjects that lent themselves to coherent, if multistranded, narratives. The Seattle Times
- The island is more commonly known by the name 'Krakatoa'.
- The island is more commonly known by the name 'Krakatoa'.
- He ends with the story of Anak Krakatoa, the new volcano rising in the caldera of the old volcano. and the way that life is taking hold in a doomed landscape.