Crossword-Solution: KRAKATAU
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| Active concern in Indonesia, 1883 | 1 answer |
| Nineteenth century eruption site | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EACZME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with KRAKATAU (5)
Krakatau shows us an earlier stage and how by simple agencies, continually at work, that stock might be supplied.
Krakatau, though uninhabited, was the occasional resort of fishermen who plied their calling in the Sunda Straits.
For eight weeks Krakatau blazed and thundered, the explosions being audible at Batavia, eighty miles off.
Krakatau, reduced from thirteen to six square miles, from the northern portion of the symmetrical pyramid being completely blown away by the volcanic fires, retains the conical peak of Mount Radaka, nearly three thousand feet high.
Smoke still issues from Krakatau, though the vast rent in the cloven pyramid must materially diminish the power of any future eruption, and Nature's busy hand already covers the torn side of the precipitous cone with a green veil of sparse vegetation.
Quotes with KRAKATAU (1)
Krakatoa, spelled “Krakatau” in Indonesian, is a volcano in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra. It is also the name of an island group made up of what is left of a larger island, consisting of three volcanic peaks that were destroyed by the catastrophic 1883 eruption. This explosive force was equivalent to 100,000 Hiroshima sized atomic bombs. It was the loudest sound ever heard in modern history and could be heard up to 3,000 miles away. At that time, the explosion ca…
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Appears in: Chronicle, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2004–2005).