Krakatoa
Krakatoa is a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. It is part of Lampung province in Sumatra.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 288 metres
- Description: Sunda Strait volcanic island caldera
- Also known as: “Carcata”, “Cracatoa”, “cracatuo”, “Krakatao”, “Krakatau”, “Krakatau Island”, “Mount Krakatoa”, “Pulau Krakatau”, and “Son of Krakatau”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Anak Krakatoa.
Anak Krakatoa
Island
Anak Krakatau is a volcanic island in Indonesia. On 29 December 1927, Anak Krakatau first emerged from the caldera formed in 1883 by the explosive volcanic eruption that destroyed the island of Krakatoa.
Krakatoa
- Categories: volcanic island, former island, caldera, and landform
- Location: Lampung, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-6.103° or 6° 6′ 11″ southLongitude
105.4222° or 105° 25′ 20″ eastElevation
288 metres (945 feet)Open location code
6P57VCWC+RVOpenStreetMap ID
node 448446512OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Krakatoa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Krakatoa”
- Albanian: “Krakatau”
- Albanian: “Krakatoa”
- Arabic: “بركان كاراكاتاو”
- Arabic: “كراكاتوا”
- Armenian: “Կրակատաու”
- Asturian: “Krakatoa”
- Asturian: “Volcán Krakatoa”
- Azerbaijani: “Krakatau vulkanı”
- Balinese: “Krakatau”
- Bashkir: “Кракатау”
- Basque: “Krakatoa”
- Belarusian: “Вулкан Кракатаў”
- Belarusian: “Кракатаў”
- Bengali: “ক্রাকাতোয়া”
- Bosnian: “Krakatoa”
- Breton: “Krakatau”
- Bulgarian: “Анак Кракатау”
- Bulgarian: “Кракатао”
- Bulgarian: “Кракатау”
- Bulgarian: “Кракатоа”
- Burmese: “ကရာကတောင်း”
- Catalan: “Krakatau”
- Catalan: “Krakatoa”
- Cebuano: “Krakatoa”
- Chinese: “克拉卡脫山”
- Chinese: “克拉卡脫火山”
- Chinese: “喀拉喀托岛”
- Chinese: “喀拉喀托火山”
- Croatian: “Krakatau”
- Croatian: “Krakatoa”
- Czech: “Krakatau”
- Czech: “Krakatoa”
- Czech: “Rakata”
- Danish: “Krakatau”
- Danish: “Krakatoa”
- Dhivehi: “ކްރަކަޓޯއާ އައިލޭންޑް”
- Dutch: “Krakatao”
- Dutch: “Krakatau”
- Dutch: “Krakatoa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كراكاتوا”
- Esperanto: “Krakatau”
- Esperanto: “Krakatoa”
- Estonian: “Krakatau”
- Finnish: “Krakatau”
- Finnish: “Krakatoa”
- Finnish: “Krakatoan purkaus”
- French: “Krakatau”
- French: “Krakatoa”
- Galician: “Krakatoa”
- Georgian: “კრაკატაუ”
- German: “Krakatau”
- German: “Krakatoa”
- German: “Polipai”
- German: “Prolipay”
- Greek: “Κρακατόα”
- Hebrew: “קרקטאו”
- Hebrew: “קרקטואה”
- Hindi: “एनैक क्राकाटाओ”
- Hindi: “क्राकाटोआ”
- Hungarian: “Krakatao”
- Hungarian: “Krakatau”
- Icelandic: “Krakatá”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Krakatau”
- Indonesian: “Krakatau”
- Indonesian: “Krakatoa”
- Interlingua: “Krakatau”
- Interlingua: “Krakatoa”
- Irish: “Sliabh Krakatoa”
- Italian: “Krakatau”
- Italian: “Krakatoa”
- Japanese: “クラカタウ”
- Japanese: “クラカタウ山”
- Japanese: “クラカタウ火山”
- Japanese: “クラカトア”
- Javanese: “Gunung Krakatau”
- Kazakh: “Кракатау”
- Kirghiz: “Кракатау”
- Korean: “아낙 크라카타우 산”
- Korean: “크라카타우 섬”
- Korean: “크라카타우산”
- Latvian: “Krakatau”
- Latvian: “Krakatoa”
- Lithuanian: “Krakatau”
- Lithuanian: “Krakatoa”
- Luxembourgish: “Krakatau”
- Macedonian: “Кракатау”
- Malay: “Gunung Krakatau”
- Malay: “Gunung Krakatoa”
- Malay: “Krakatau”
- Malay: “Krakatoa”
- Malayalam: “Krakatoa”
- Malayalam: “ഇന്തോനേഷ്യന് ദീപ്”
- Malayalam: “ക്രകതൌ”
- Malayalam: “ക്രാകത്തോവ പർവ്വതം”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Krakatau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Krakatoa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Krakatau”
- Norwegian: “Krakatau”
- Norwegian: “Krakatoa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Krakatoa”
- Pampanga: “Krakatau”
- Pampanga: “Krakatoa”
- Persian: “کراکاتوآ”
- Persian: “کراکاتوا”
- Polish: “Anak Krakatau”
- Polish: “Krakatau”
- Polish: “Krakatoa”
- Portuguese: “Anak Krakatau”
- Portuguese: “Anak Krakatoa”
- Portuguese: “Cracatoa”
- Portuguese: “Cracatôa”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Krakatoa”
- Portuguese: “Krakatao”
- Portuguese: “Krakatoa”
- Romanian: “Krakatau”
- Romanian: “Krakatoa”
- Russian: “Кракатау”
- Russian: “Кракатоа”
- Scots: “Krakatoa”
- Serbian: “Кракатау”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Krakatau”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Krakatoa”
- Sicilian: “Krakatau”
- Sicilian: “Krakatoa”
- Slovak: “Krakatoa”
- Slovenian: “Krakatau”
- Slovenian: “Krakatav”
- Spanish: “Krakatoa”
- Spanish: “Krakatu”
- Spanish: “Volcan Krakatoa”
- Spanish: “Volcán Krakatoa”
- Sundanese: “Krakatau”
- Sundanese: “Rakata”
- Swedish: “Gunung Pulu Rakata”
- Swedish: “Krakatao”
- Swedish: “Krakatau”
- Swedish: “Krakataus”
- Swedish: “Krakatoa”
- Tagalog: “Krakatoa”
- Tamil: “கிரகட்டோவா”
- Tamil: “கிரக்கத்தோவா”
- Thai: “กรากะตัว”
- Thai: “ภูเขาไฟกรากะตัว”
- Thai: “ภูเขาไฟกรากาตัว”
- Turkish: “Karakatau”
- Turkish: “Karakatoa”
- Ukrainian: “Кракатау”
- Urdu: “کراکاٹاؤ”
- Urdu: “کراکاٹو”
- Urdu: “کراکاٹوا”
- Uzbek: “Krakatau”
- Venetian: “Krakatoa”
- Vietnamese: “Krakatau”
- Vietnamese: “Krakatoa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Krakatau”
- Welsh: “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”
- “Gunung Krakatau”
- “Krakatao”
- “Krakatau”
- “Krakataus”
- “Mount Krakatoa”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Krakatoa”. Photo: Uprising, CC BY-SA 3.0.