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AFTER being quiescent for more than forty-three years, the Krakatoa volcano renewed its activity in December 1927. Heavy eruptions started from a submarine crater situated in the centre of the basin, between the three islands of the Krakatoa group, and the ejected volcanic materials formed a cone which in January 1928 appeared above the surface of the sea, and formed an island which was 175 metres long and 3 metres high. In the following months activity was most severe and a cone 200 metres high was built up having a volume of about twenty-five million cubic metres! This island was soon destroyed by the sea waves and eventually disappeared. This was Anak Krakatoa I.
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VAN LEEUWEN, W. Germinating Coconuts on a New Volcanic Island, Krakatoa. Nature 132, 674–675 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132674b0
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