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The 2009 episode "Krakatoa" of History's geology-based documentary series How the Earth Was Made also chronicles the geologic history of Krakatoa. [ 14 ] In a 1991 episode of the TV show Seinfeld , Jerry (in 1985) is tricked by Kramer into donating money to the Krakatoa relief fund, even though it erupted 102 years earlier.
Krakatoa: The Last Days (also titled Krakatoa: Volcano of Destruction in the U.S. on the Discovery Channel) is a BBC Television docudrama that premiered on 7 May 2006 on BBC One. The program is based upon four eyewitness accounts of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa , an active stratovolcano between the islands of Sumatra and Java , present day ...
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.
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.
The Blairs descend into the active volcano Anak Krakatoa and meet the legendary 116-year-old artist Lempad. They also meet the neigong master, John Chang, known as “Dynamo Jack” and witness the funeral rites of the king of the Toraja people of the Celebes .
Seriously, this is a whole new Zuma. PopCap and EA have revealed the next generation of Zuma Blitz on Facebook, titled Zuma Blitz: Kroakatoa Island. What sounds like a mere expansion is actually a ...
The 1953 American adventure film Fair Wind to Java depicts a fictional sailing ship, the Gerrymander, which rides out a large tsunami generated by the 1883 explosion of Krakatoa. The 1969 American disaster film Krakatoa, East of Java depicts a fictional steamer, the Batavia Queen , surviving an encounter with an enormous tsunami at sea between ...
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 ...