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The Volcanic Eruption in the Straits of Sunda, 1883. 'Island of Krakatoa, in the Straits of Sunda, the centre of the late Volcanic Eruption, said to have disappeared. East Coast and Islands of the Straits of Sunda, with Anjer, a port of Java. The Straits of Sunda, as seen after leaving Anjer...The '...terrible volcanic eruption, which crumbled to pieces the Island of Krakatoa, and its lofty cone, and claimed its victims by tens of thousands, stands out conspicuously among the tragical events of 1883. Although some philosophers associate our recent brilliant sunsets with the atmospheric effects of the tremendous convulsion in Eastern Asia, we are as little consoled by such inductions for the wide spread devastation caused by it as we are tranquillised by the assurance that the preternatural activity of subterranean forces is a proof that our earth is not likely soon to become a " dead planet".' From "Illustrated London News", 1883.