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The eruption of Krakatoa island in August 1883 was THE most deadly volcanic explosion in modern history. More than 36,000 people in over 300 coastal villages perished in the most ghastly ways imaginable. Many died of burns and suffocation from the super-heated pyroclastic blasts that blew the peaks off the island. Thousands more drowned from the 4 tsunamis that followed when the volcano collapsed into the sea.
The Indonesian island of Krakatau (Krakatoa) sits in the narrow Sunda Straits between Sumatra to the north and Java to the south. Before the 1883 eruption, the uninhabited tropical island had no less than3 volcanic peaks: Perboewatan the most active, Danan in the middle, and Rakata the tallest. Krakatau and its two nearby islands were remnants of a previous eruption that left an undersea caldera simmering beneath the sea.
Our story however starts 3 months before. Early in the morning of 20 May 1883, an 11 kilometer high cloud of ash and pumice plumed above th
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For Chris Larabee and Buck Wilmington, trips into town had become anything but routine since the orphan utbildning had brought two small boys into their lives, and this particular trip was more significant than usual. The following Monday would be the first Monday in September, which meant school for the boys.
JD was bursting with excitement - school was a new experience for him. Vin was less enthusiastic. From what little he could get Vin to say on the subject, Chris suspected that alkoholhaltig had been to school at the orphanage, and had not found it a happy experience. He wished he could promise the little boy that things would be different here, but he hadn't even met Miss Myrtle Withers, the newly-arrived school teacher, or seen the inside of the town's small one-room school. He'd left it up to Buck to take care of that and enroll the boys, mostly because Buck had found it a convenient excuse to meet Miss Withers, whom he had found to be frustratingly immune to the Wilmington charm.
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Krakatoa: The Last Days
2006 British TV docudrama film directed by Sam Miller
| Krakatoa: The Last Days | |
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Cover art of BBC DVD. | |
| Genre | Docudrama History Disaster |
| Written by | Colin Heber-Percy Michael Olmert Lyall B. Watson |
| Directed by | Sam Miller |
| Starring | Rupert Penry-Jones Olivia Williams Kevin McMonagle |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| Producers | Alan Eyres J. Gregory Smith |
| Cinematography | Giulio Biccari |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Budget | £2,200,000 |
| Network | BBC One |
| Release | 7 May 2006 (2006-05-07) |
Krakatoa: The Last Days (also titled Krakatoa: Volcano of Destruction in the U.S. on the Discovery Channel) is a BBC Televisiondocudrama that premiered on 7 May 2006 on BBC One. The program is based upon four eyewitness accounts of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, an active stratovolcano between the islands of Sumatra and Java, present day Indonesia.
Production
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