Get to know Krakatoa better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like krakatau or volcano.
Krakatoa in a sentence
Krakatoa meaning
a volcanic island made of ʻaʻā lava in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia
Using Krakatoa
- The main meaning on this page is: a volcanic island made of ʻaʻā lava in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia
- Useful related words include: krakatau, krakatao, volcano, island.
- In the example corpus, krakatoa often appears in combinations such as: krakatoa volcano, krakatoa in, the krakatoa.
Context around Krakatoa
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Krakatoa
- In this selection, "krakatoa" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, drama, infamous, child, volcano, group and itself stand out and add context to how "krakatoa" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1815 and krakatoa in 1883 and 2008 as krakatoa. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "krakatoa" sits close to words such as abad, abovementioned and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with krakatoa
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I was trying to photograph the erupting Krakatoa volcano. (9 words)
Note the continuing growth of Anak Krakatoa after the 1883 event. (11 words)
Anak (child) Krakatoa volcano erupting, as seen from a ship on the Sunda Straits. (14 words)
Krakatoa Resources Ltd (ASX:KTA) chairman Colin Locke tells Proactive the company has significantly expanded exploration at the wholly-owned King Tamba Project in Western Australia by way of a further 6,000 metres of reverse circulation (RC) drilling. (39 words)
This effect was especially pronounced with the increase in small dust particles in the atmosphere after the eruptions of Mount Tambora in 1815 and Krakatoa in 1883, which gave rise to intense red sunsets around the world. (37 words)
Krakatoa is directly above the subduction zone of the Eurasian Plate and the Indo-Australian Plate where the plate boundaries make a sharp change of direction, possibly resulting in an unusually weak crust in the region. (36 words)
Example sentences (19)
At the time of the 1883 eruption, the Krakatoa group comprised Lang, Verlaten, and Krakatoa itself, an island convert long by convert wide.
In more recent years, it has been the subject of a 2006 television drama, Krakatoa: Volcano of Destruction and again in 2008 as Krakatoa.
Krakatoa Resources Ltd (ASX:KTA) chairman Colin Locke tells Proactive the company has significantly expanded exploration at the wholly-owned King Tamba Project in Western Australia by way of a further 6,000 metres of reverse circulation (RC) drilling.
Myles Robertson-Cowie pleaded guilty to repeatedly striking a woman to the head at Krakatoa, Aberdeen.
Plumes of white and brown ash stream from Indonesia’s infamous Krakatoa volcano in a striking aerial view captured by the Sentinel-2 satellite on 12 May.
Meanwhile Craig Adams, owner of the city’s Krakatoa bar, believes the safety of the public shouldn’t be put at risk.
Anak (child) Krakatoa volcano erupting, as seen from a ship on the Sunda Straits.
I was trying to photograph the erupting Krakatoa volcano.
The Krakatoa volcano is still erupting, and as long as that process continues, according to the country’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency, more tsunamis could be triggered.
Additionally, in recent times, it has been argued that it was this eruption which created the islands of Verlaten, Lang, and the beginnings of Rakata—all indicators of early Krakatoa's caldera's size.
After the eruption of the volcano Krakatoa in 1883, a remarkable series of red sunsets appeared worldwide.
Even small caldera-forming eruptions, such as Krakatoa in 1883 or Mount Pinatubo in 1991, may result in significant local destruction and a noticeable drop in temperature around the world.
Hot springs boiling furiously up, through many fathoms of water, were found on the eastern side of Krakatoa, 150 feet from the shore.
Krakatoa is directly above the subduction zone of the Eurasian Plate and the Indo-Australian Plate where the plate boundaries make a sharp change of direction, possibly resulting in an unusually weak crust in the region.
Later, at least two more cones ( Perboewatan and Danan ) formed and eventually joined with Rakata, forming the main island of Krakatoa.
Note the continuing growth of Anak Krakatoa after the 1883 event.
There were three volcanic cones on Krakatoa island: Rakata, (convert) to the south; Danan, (convert) near the center; and Perboewatan, (convert) to the north.
The Smithsonian Institution 's Global Volcanism Program cites the Indonesian name, Krakatau, as the correct name, but says that Krakatoa is often employed.
This effect was especially pronounced with the increase in small dust particles in the atmosphere after the eruptions of Mount Tambora in 1815 and Krakatoa in 1883, which gave rise to intense red sunsets around the world.
Common combinations with krakatoa
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- krakatoa volcano 5×
- krakatoa in 3×
- the krakatoa 2×
- and krakatoa 2×
- as krakatoa 2×
- of krakatoa 2×
- krakatoa is 2×