Krakatau Archipelago

Krakatau Archipelago
Satellite image of the archipelago
Waters	Indian Ocean
archipelago	Great Sunda Islands
Geographical location	6 ° 6 ′  S , 105 ° 25 ′  E Coordinates: 6 ° 6 ′  S , 105 ° 25 ′  E
Number of islands	4th
Main island	Krakatau
Total land area	26.6 km²
Residents	uninhabited
Archipelago before the 1883 eruption

The Krakatau Archipelago , also called Pulau-Pulau Krakatau or Indonesian Kepulauan Krakatau , is an uninhabited Indonesian archipelago in the Sunda Strait in the eastern Indian Ocean . It lies between the large islands of Sumatra in the northwest and Java in the southeast.

The archipelago, which is best known for the Krakatau volcano and its massive eruption in 1883, originally consisted of three islands , which in turn were probably remnants of a destroyed previous island . The main island of Krakatau was completely destroyed by the volcanic eruption in 1883, except for the southern part. To this end, the island of Anak Krakatau is currently growing out of the sea in the center of the archipelago above an active Krakatau vent .

List of Krakatau Islands

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

All islands are uninhabited. Area information since the eruption of 1883.

Island name	Coordinates	surface
Slung / Verlaten Iceland	06 ° 06 ′  S , 105 ° 23 ′  E	7.7
Anak Krakatau	06 ° 06 ′  S , 105 ° 25 ′  E	4.3
Rakata / Krakatoa	06 ° 09 ′  S , 105 ° 26 ′  E	12.0
Panjang (Lang Island, Krakatau Kecil)	06 ° 06 ′  S , 105 ° 27 ′  E	2.6

politics

Administratively, the archipelago belongs to the Indonesian province of Lampung .

The Krakatau archipelago has been part of the Ujung Kulon National Park since 1980 , which UNESCO recognized as a World Heritage Site in 1992 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.geonames.org/1639432/pulau-pulau-krakatau.html
2. ↑ Wilfried Schröder: The Krakatau eruption a hundred years ago . In: Technical Information Library [TIB] (Ed.): Geosciences in our time . Verlag Chemie GmbH, Weinheim 1983, p. 155–159 , doi : 10.2312 / geosciences.1983.1.155 .
3. ↑ The Dark Age - Did a massive volcanic eruption cause the cold spell in the 6th century? In: Image of Science. January 9, 2001, accessed November 3, 2019 . 
4. ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Center: Ujung Kulon National Park. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .