Krakatoa

Krakatoa is a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait between and in . It is part of province in Sumatra.
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  • Type: Archipelago
  • Description: Sunda Strait volcanic island caldera
  • Also known as: “Anak Krakatau”, “Anak Krakatoa”, “Carcata”, “Cracatoa”, “Cracatôa”, “cracatuo”, “Gunung Krakatoa”, “Gunung Pulu Rakata”, “Karakatoa”, “Krakatao”, “Krakatau Island”, “Krakatau Islands”, “Krakatoan purkaus”, “Krakatu”, “Mount Krakatoa”, “Polipai”, “Prolipay”, “Pulau Krakatau”, “Volcan Krakatoa”, “Анак Кракатау”, “Кракатао”, “Кракатоа”, “بركان كاراكاتاو”, “کراکاتوا”, “کراکاٹاؤ”, “کراکاٹو”, “ഇന്തോനേഷ്യന്‍ ദീപ്”, “ക്രകതൌ”, “กรากะตัว”, “ภูเขาไฟกรากาตัว”, “아낙 크라카타우 산”, “크라카타우 섬”, “クラカタウ山”, “クラカタウ火山”, “克拉卡脫山”, “克拉卡脫火山”, and “喀拉喀托岛”

Krakatoa

Latitude
-6.125° or 6° 7′ 30″ south
Longitude
105.4078° or 105° 24′ 28″ east
Elevation
288 metres (945 feet)
Open location code
6P57VCF5+X4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 448441881
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­archipelago
Geo­Names ID
1639433
Wiki­data ID
Q82613
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Krakatoa” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Krakatoa”
  • Albanian: “Krakatau”
  • Arabic: “كراكاتوا”
  • Armenian: “Կրակատաու”
  • Asturian: “Krakatoa”
  • Asturian: “Volcán Krakatoa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Krakatau vulkanı”
  • Balinese: “Krakatau”
  • Bashkir: “Кракатау”
  • Basque: “Krakatoa”
  • Belarusian: “Кракатаў”
  • Bengali: “ক্রাকাতোয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Krakatoa”
  • Breton: “Krakatau”
  • Bulgarian: “Кракатау”
  • Burmese: “ကရာကတောင်း”
  • Catalan: “Krakatau”
  • Catalan: “Krakatoa”
  • Cebuano: “Krakatoa”
  • Chinese: “喀拉喀托火山”
  • Croatian: “Krakatoa”
  • Czech: “Krakatoa”
  • Danish: “Krakatau”
  • Dhivehi: “ކްރަކަޓޯއާ އައިލޭންޑް”
  • Dutch: “Krakatau”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كراكاتوا”
  • Esperanto: “Krakatoa”
  • Estonian: “Krakatau”
  • Finnish: “Krakatau”
  • Finnish: “Krakatoa”
  • French: “Krakatoa”
  • Galician: “Krakatoa”
  • Georgian: “კრაკატაუ”
  • German: “Krakatau”
  • Greek: “Κρακατόα”
  • Hebrew: “קרקטאו”
  • Hebrew: “קרקטואה”
  • Hindi: “एनैक क्राकाटाओ”
  • Hindi: “क्राकाटोआ”
  • Hungarian: “Krakatau”
  • Icelandic: “Krakatá”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Krakatau”
  • Indonesian: “Krakatau”
  • Interlingua: “Krakatoa”
  • Irish: “Sliabh Krakatoa”
  • Italian: “Krakatoa”
  • Japanese: “クラカタウ”
  • Japanese: “クラカトア”
  • Javanese: “Gunung Krakatau”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ರಾಕಟೋವ”
  • Kazakh: “Кракатау”
  • Kirghiz: “Кракатау”
  • Korean: “크라카타우산”
  • Latvian: “Krakatau”
  • Lithuanian: “Krakatau”
  • Luxembourgish: “Krakatau”
  • Macedonian: “Кракатау”
  • Malay: “Krakatau”
  • Malayalam: “ക്രാകത്തോവ പർവ്വതം”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Krakatau”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Krakatau”
  • Norwegian: “Krakatau”
  • Norwegian: “Krakatoa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Krakatoa”
  • Pampanga: “Krakatau”
  • Persian: “کراکاتوآ”
  • Polish: “Krakatau”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Krakatoa”
  • Portuguese: “Krakatoa”
  • Romanian: “Krakatau”
  • Russian: “Кракатау”
  • Scots: “Krakatoa”
  • Serbian: “Кракатау”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Krakatoa”
  • Sicilian: “Krakatau”
  • Slovak: “Krakatoa”
  • Slovenian: “Krakatau”
  • Slovenian: “Krakatav”
  • Spanish: “Krakatoa”
  • Spanish: “Volcán Krakatoa”
  • Sundanese: “Krakatau”
  • Sundanese: “Rakata”
  • Swedish: “Krakatau”
  • Swedish: “Krakataus”
  • Swedish: “Krakatoa”
  • Tagalog: “Krakatoa”
  • Tamil: “கிரகட்டோவா”
  • Tamil: “கிரக்கத்தோவா”
  • Thai: “ภูเขาไฟกรากะตัว”
  • Turkish: “Karakatau”
  • Ukrainian: “Кракатау”
  • Urdu: “کراکاٹوا”
  • Uzbek: “Krakatau”
  • Venetian: “Krakatoa”
  • Vietnamese: “Krakatau”
  • Vietnamese: “Krakatoa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Krakatau”
  • Welsh: “Krakatoa”
  • Western Frisian: “Krakatau”
  • Western Panjabi: “کراکاٹوا”
  • Wu Chinese: “喀拉喀托火山”
  • Yakut: “Кракатау”
  • Yue Chinese: “喀拉喀托火山”

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