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The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures: Secret of the Living Volcano is a computer game in The Learning Company's ClueFinders series of educational software.In the game, the ClueFinders are shipwrecked on a mysterious volcanic island, inhabited by centuries of trapped castaways, where any escape attempt seems to be deliberately thwarted by natural forces.
Volcanic islands usually range in size between 1 and 104 square kilometres (0.4 and 40 sq mi). [2] Islands above a certain size usually have fresh groundwater, while low islands often do not, so volcanic islands are more likely to be habitable.
Kadovar is a volcanic island in Papua New Guinea northeast of the much larger island of New Guinea. The volcano erupted in January 2018 and the eruption is ongoing as of 2023, although the activity level is generally considered to be low. [2] There were some heightened thermal phenomena in 1976. [2]
The game, alongside the original Kao the Kangaroo and Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 were added to GOG.com and to Zoom-Platform in February 2021. [10] The game was added to Steam [11] and the Epic Games Store [12] on 27 April 2023.
Krakatoa (/ ˌ k r ɑː k ə ˈ t oʊ ə, ˌ k r æ k-/), also transcribed Krakatau (/-ˈ t aʊ /), is a caldera [1] 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 (Krakatoa archipelago) comprising four islands.
The island is a basalt and olivine pillar with sheer sides, the only visible portion of an active submarine volcanic caldera extending south of the island with a circumference of approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi). The above sea-level portion has a height of 134 metres (440 ft).
The volcanic island of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia saw an eruption on 22 December 2018 which caused a deadly tsunami, with waves surging up to five meters in height. The tsunami killed at least 437 ...
Repeated volcanic eruptions in 1939 and 2002 have set the flora on Tori-shima back to initial stages in the ecological succession.Plants such as Vitex rotundifolia and hydrangea are found near the shoreline, and Chrysanthemum pacificum and Japanese black pine in sheltered areas inland, but most of the central portion of the island remains as volcanic ash and rock.