Krakatoa_eruption_lithograph.jpg

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English: An 1888 lithograph of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa .
Date
Source Image published as Plate 1 in The eruption of Krakatoa, and subsequent phenomena. Report of the Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society (London, Trubner & Co., 1888).
Author Lithograph: Parker & Coward, Britain;
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27th May 1883: Clouds pouring from the volcano on Krakatoa (aka Krakatau or Rakata) in south western Indonesia during the early stages of the eruption which eventually destroyed most of the island.