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Krakatau
[ krak-uh-tou, krah-kuh- ]
noun
- a volcano and small island in Indonesia, between Java and Sumatra: violent eruption 1883.
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For eight weeks Krakatau blazed and thundered, the explosions being audible at Batavia, eighty miles off.
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Krakatau, though uninhabited, was the occasional resort of fishermen who plied their calling in the Sunda Straits.
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In 1883 the small island of Krakatau was destroyed by the most violent volcanic eruption on record.
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It is still the remains of the great volcanic eruption on the island of Krakatau, in the Straits of Sunda, eighteen months ago.
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Krakatau shows us an earlier stage and how by simple agencies, continually at work, that stock might be supplied.
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