What happened to the island of Krakatoa?
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Krakatoa (Indonesian name: Krakatau) is a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. The name is used for the island group, the main island (also called Rakata) and the volcano as a whole. It has erupted repeatedly, massively and with disastrous consequences throughout recorded history. The best known of these events occurred in late August 1883.\n\nThe 1883 eruption ejected more than six cubic miles (25 cubic kilometres) of rock, ash, and pumice [1], and generated the loudest sound ever historically recorded — the cataclysmic explosion was distinctly heard as far away as Perth in Australia (Approx. 3100 km), and the island of Rodrigues near Mauritius (Approx. 4800 km). Atmospheric shock waves reverberated around the world seven times and were felt for five days. Near Krakatoa, according to official records, 165 villages and towns were destroyed and 132 seriously damaged, 36,417 people died, and many thousands were injured by the eruption, mostly in the tsunami which followed the explosion.\n\nThe eruption destroyed two-thirds of the pre-existing island of Krakatoa. New eruptions at the volcano since 1927 have built a new island, called Anak Krakatau (child of Krakatoa).
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I hadn't heard that.  What on Earth could it be about?  It sunk.  End of story, right?
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*lol* no!!!\nso here goes:\nIn the beginning there was darkness everywhere, and Chaos ruled. Within the darkness there formed an egg, and inside the egg the giant Pangu came into being. For aeons, safely inside the egg, Pangu slept and grew. When he had grown to gigantic size he stretched his huge limbs and in so doing broke the egg. The lighter parts of the egg floated upwards to form the heavens and the denser parts sank downwards, to become the earth. And so was formed earth and sky, Yin and Yang.\nPangu saw what had happened and he was pleased. But he feared that heaven and earth might meld together again, so he placed himself between them, his head holding up the sky and his feet firmly upon the earth. Pangu continued to grow at a rate of ten feet a day for 18,000 years, so increasing the distance between heaven and earth, until they seemed fixed and secure, 30,000 miles apart. Now exhausted, Pangu went back to sleep and never woke up.\nPangu died, and his body went to make the world and all its elements. The wind and clouds were formed from his breath, his voice was thunder and lightning, his eyes became the sun and moon, his arms and his legs became the four directions of the compass and his trunk became the mountains. His flesh turned into the soil and the trees that grow on it, his blood into the rivers that flow and his veins into paths men travel. His body hair became the grass and herbs, and his skin the same, while precious stones and minerals were formed from his bones and teeth. His sweat became the dew and the hair of his head became the stars that trail throughout heaven. As for the parasites on his body, these became the divers races of humankind.\nAlthough Pangu is dead, some say he is still responsible for the weather, which fluctuates according to his moods.
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No, the island of Atlantis was supposedly near the Azores island and a tsunami or hurricane wiped it out. The Bermuda triangle is on the other side of the world.
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They were drowned in an accident.\n\nhttp://www.allscifi.com/trivialist.asp?Answer=A&Filter=&Question=13231
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It WILL erupt again - it's not a matter of IF, but rather When and How Big?  It is being monitored very closely by geophysicists and volcanologists at present.\n\nMost recently the volcano erupted in the 1940s (not that long ago!  It was a minor eruption).  For more information, check out the link below.
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what happened??  I missed it
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Are you sure about the spelling? I couldn't find any Baterman Island on the web, and I guess I'm not the only one. Maybe that's why you don't get any answers, maybe it's Bannerman Island...
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It was there before it was an island.
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The Goddess of fiery explosions before Hawaiin legend was \n   named Lisai, and the word meant the most confused.  The \n   legend is long and odd, goes like this.  Lisai was the last of\n   a skilled people that lived in mauai, paddled to lanakai and\n   lost their ships, so they could not return.  They found that \n   a previous inhabitant something like the Easter Island giants\n   had destroyed much of the livestock domestics like aliens \n   or uncivilized might do.  So they built new ships and then an\n   angel appeared to Lisai's friend and told her to build a great\n   fire to signal that Peace came to the island.  For she told her\n   your coming here with such great numbers reassures this is\n   a blessed heavenly place and the giants are gone and their\n   spoils are ruined, they will not return and not desecrate again.\n   The fire was a tradition something like for 2000 years on a \n   very high ledge as if signalling for even more to come from \n   other islands.  Then to honor their effort the volcano was \n    named for them, because it appeared with another angel vision\n    and replaced them on their duties.
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Scientists excavating at the site of the world's biggest recorded volcanic eruption on an Indonesian island have found human remains and artifacts in an area they said may be the ``Pompeii of the east.''\n\nThe discoveries were made near Tambora, on Sumbawa Island, which erupted in 1815. The volcano produced 150 cubic kilometers of ash that fell as far as 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) away. Tambora lies about 1,300 kilometers to the east of Indonesia's capital, Jakarta.\n\n``There is a potential that Tambora could be the Pompeii of the east and it could be of great cultural interest,'' Haraldur Sigurdsson of the University of Rhode Island, who led the excavation, said in a statement published on the university's Web site. ``All the people, their houses and culture are still encapsulated there as they were in 1815.''\n\nThe archeological dig led to the discovery of two human bodies, ceramic pots and artifacts linking Tamboran culture to that of Vietnam and Cambodia. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy in 79 AD covered the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in layers of ash. Pompeii was discovered in 1748 with buildings and artifacts intact. The discovery gave insight to historians about ancient Roman life.\n\n``If it's true that they found such remains, it will reveal the culture at that time,'' said Atje Purbawinata, head of volcano monitoring and research at the Volcanological Survey of Indonesia. ``A generation of local people might have been lost due to the eruption. Now it could be revealed what happened.'' \n\nThe expedition involved teams from the University of Rhode Island and the University of North Carolina, the statement said. They spent six weeks in the island in 2004.\n\nStill, the team didn't seek permission from the Indonesian Institute of Science, said Neni Sintawardani, department head in charge of issuing research clearance at the agency.\n\nIgan Sutawidjaya, a senior researcher at the Volcanological Survey of Indonesia, a member of the team to Tambora, said they obtained permission from Indonesia's immigration department and the foreign ministry. He didn't know if the science agency needed to approve the trip.\n\n``In granting a clearance, we always require them to cooperate with a qualified Indonesian so we can share knowledge,'' Sintawardani said.\n\nSome Indonesian archeologists said the evidence of Khmer culture among the ruins could have been because of trade.\n\n``The ceramic pots and other household materials found might be goods that the people of Tambora traded overseas, the Mon- Khmer culture has actually never been found across Indonesia,'' said Bagyo Prasetyo, an archeologist with the Center of Archeological Research in Jakarta. ``We also need to know if the team did carbon dating.''\n\nVolcanic Explosivity Index\n\nTambora's eruption was rated 7 according to the Volcanic Explosivity Index, which measures the height of the eruption and the amount of ash ejected, according to the Volcano World Web site hosted at the University of North Dakota, making it the biggest recorded eruption. Mount Toba in Sumatra Island, which erupted 76,000 years ago, had a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 8.\n\nTambora's eruption killed about 10,000 people because of the pyroclastic flows, while an estimated 82,000 died after the eruption because of disease and hunger. The year 1815 is also known as the ``year without a summer,'' because gases released by Tambora resulted in a global cooling and led to food shortages in Europe.\n\n``The findings were remarkable,'' said Sutawidjaya of the Volcanological Survey. A team from the agency will visit the area again in April to continue its research, he said.\n\nPumice, Ash\n\nThe Tambora discovery was made after cutting through a 10- foot thick deposit of pumice and ash, the statement said. The area may also have a wooden palace. Sigurdsson and his team plan to ret
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Obviously it was one of the greatest and more damaging natural dis tasters in modern history. It decimated local populations and devastated local industries such as tourism, fishing, etc. You can do a Yahoo! search for "Tsunami video" and you will get a physical look at what it actually looked liked coming in from the sea.
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The entire island was bulldozed, all buildings removed down to the foundations, everything taken off the island and the whole place was abandoned and turned into a wildlife sanctuary.\n\nThey did this when the last of the chemical weapons was destroyed a couple years ago.
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A island is formed when underwater volcanoes erupt and cool rapidly building the hot magma onto the molten rock.  Eventually the rock keeps building upon itself and a island is risen after many years.
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Last I heard, Easter Island has nothing to do with early man at all. More recent studies are dating the constructions well within the second millenium. Wish I could remember where I read that, but I am sure it has something to do with environmental destruction. i.e. the more recent population lived an unsustainable lifestyle and wiped themselves out. Really wish I could remember that article's details. Sorry.
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IT HIT AN ICEBERG! It was the biggest ship ever of its time. There weren't enough lifeboats. Lots of people died making it. It was the most expensive ship in the world. the captain died with his ship. The people who evacuated the boat came up with the idea of women and children first. Erm...I don't know much more about it but there you go anyway :P
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As the North Island became overpopulated and resources declined there was a lot of fighting.  It is at this time that the pas (hilltop fortresses) were built. The fighting continued up to European settlement.  \n\nMaoris are no more inherently violent than any other people, but they, like everyone else, are capable of violence when their society is stressed.