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Although there are earlier descriptions in European sources of an island in the Sunda Strait with a "pointed mountain," the earliest mention of Krakatoa by name in the western world was on a 1611 map by Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, who labelled the island "Pulo Carcata" (pulo is the Sundanese word for "island").
The 1883 Krakatoa eruption darkened the sky worldwide for years afterwards and produced spectacular sunsets worldwide for many months. British artist William Ascroft made thousands of colour sketches of the red sunsets halfway around the world from Krakatoa in the years after the eruption.
The Year Without a Summer was an agricultural disaster; historian John D. Post called it "the last great subsistence crisis in the Western world". [4] [5] The climatic aberrations of 1816 had their greatest effect on New England (US), Atlantic Canada, and Western Europe.
Rakata (a.k.a. Greater Krakatoa) – Standing 813 metres (2,667 feet) tall, it was the largest and southern-most of three volcanoes that formed the now destroyed island of "Krakatoa" (the others being Danan and Perboewatan), and the only one not obliterated in the eruption of 1883. However, Rakata did lose its northern half in that eruption ...
Satellite image of Europe by night 1916 physical map of Europe Topography of Europe. Some geographical texts refer to a Eurasian continent given that Europe is not surrounded by sea and its southeastern border has always been variously defined for centuries. In terms of shape, Europe is a collection of connected peninsulas and nearby
Erupción del Krakatoa de 1883; Usage on fa.wikipedia.org فوران ۱۸۸۳ آتشفشان کراکاتوآ; Usage on fi.wikipedia.org Krakataun tulivuorenpurkaus 1883; Usage on fr.wikipedia.org Éruption du Krakatoa en 1883; Le Cow-boy capitaine du Cutty Sark; Usage on ga.wikipedia.org Sliabh Krakatoa; Usage on gl.wikipedia.org Krakatoa
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 this were a serial event. The soup to nuts.
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.