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    Image number: RS.10678
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    Sound range of the Krakatoa explosions

    Date
    1888
    Creator - Organisation
    Malby & Sons, Printer
    Object type
    Library reference
    8122
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 295mm
    width (print): 217mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > volcano
    Description
    Map showing the geographical range of humans hearing the explosions generated during the eruption of Krakatoa, the island in the Sunda Strait, Indonesia on 27 August 1883.

    Plate 16 from The eruption of Krakatoa, and subsequent phenomena. Report of the Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society, edited by G.J.Symons (London, Trubner & Co., 1888).

    The plate is inscribed: ‘Krakatoa. Rep.Roy.Soc.Com. Plate XVI. MAP SHOWING THE PLACES AT WHICH THE SOUNDS OF THE EXPLOSIONS WERE HEARD ON AUGUST 26-27 THE SHADED PORTION INDICATES APPROXIMATELY THE AREA OVER WHICH THE SOUNDS WERE HEARD. Malby & Sons, Lith.’
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Asia
          > Indonesia
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