Krakatoa
Krakatoa is a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. It is part of Lampung province in Sumatra.Photo: Sémhur, Public domain.
Photo: Uprising, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Krakatoa
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 450 metres
- Description: Sunda Strait volcanic island caldera
- Categories: volcanic island, former island and landform
- Location: Lampung, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-6.1001° or 6° 6' 1" southLongitude
105.4229° or 105° 25' 22" eastElevation
450 metres (1,476 feet)Open Location Code
6P57VCXF+W4OpenStreetMap ID
node 448446512OpenStreetMap Feature
natural=volcanoGeoNames ID
1639433Wikidata ID
Q82613Krakatoa Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Krakatoa
- Albanian: Krakatau
- Albanian: Krakatoa
- Arabic: Krakatau
- Arabic: بركان كاراكاتاو
- Arabic: كراكاتوا
- Armenian: Կրակատաու
- Asturian: Krakatoa
- Asturian: Volcán Krakatoa
- Azerbaijani: Krakatau vulkanı
- Balinese: Krakatau
- Bashkir: Кракатау
- Basque: Krakatoa
- Belarusian: Вулкан Кракатаў
- Belarusian: Кракатаў
- Bengali: ক্রাকাতোয়া
- Bosnian: Krakatoa
- Breton: Krakatau
- Bulgarian: Анак Кракатау
- Bulgarian: Кракатао
- Bulgarian: Кракатау
- Bulgarian: Кракатоа
- Burmese: ကရာကတောင်း
- Catalan: Krakatau
- Catalan: Krakatoa
- Cebuano: Krakatoa
- Chinese: 克拉卡脫山
- Chinese: 克拉卡脫火山
- Chinese: 喀拉喀托岛
- Chinese: 喀拉喀托火山
- Croatian: Krakatau
- Croatian: Krakatoa
- Czech: Krakatau
- Czech: Krakatoa
- Czech: Rakata
- Danish: Krakatau
- Danish: Krakatoa
- Dhivehi: ކްރަކަޓޯއާ އައިލޭންޑް
- Dutch: Krakatao
- Dutch: Krakatau
- Dutch: Krakatoa
- Egyptian Arabic: جبل كراكاتوا
- English: Carcata
- English: Cracatoa
- English: Krakatao
- English: Krakatau
- English: Krakatau Island
- English: Mount Krakatoa
- English: Pulau Krakatau
- English: cracatuo
- Esperanto: Krakatau
- Esperanto: Krakatoa
- Estonian: Krakatau
- Finnish: Krakatau
- Finnish: Krakatoa
- Finnish: Krakatoan purkaus
- French: Krakatau
- French: Krakatoa
- Galician: Krakatoa
- Georgian: კრაკატაუ
- German: Krakatau
- German: Krakatoa
- German: Polipai
- German: Prolipay
- Greek: Κρακατόα
- Hebrew: קרקטאו
- Hebrew: קרקטואה
- Hindi: एनैक क्राकाटाओ
- Hungarian: Krakatao
- Hungarian: Krakatau
- Icelandic: Krakatá
- Indonesian: Gunung Krakatau
- Indonesian: Krakatau
- Indonesian: Krakatoa
- Interlingua: Krakatau
- Interlingua: Krakatoa
- Irish: Sliabh Krakatoa
- Italian: Krakatau
- Italian: Krakatoa
- Japanese: クラカタウ
- Japanese: クラカタウ山
- Japanese: クラカタウ火山
- Japanese: クラカトア
- Javanese: Gunung Krakatau
- Kazakh: Кракатау
- Kirghiz: Кракатау
- Korean: 아낙 크라카타우 산
- Korean: 크라카타우산
- Korean: 크라카타우 섬
- Latvian: Krakatau
- Latvian: Krakatoa
- Lithuanian: Krakatau
- Lithuanian: Krakatoa
- Luxembourgish: Krakatau
- Macedonian: Кракатау
- Malay: Gunung Krakatau
- Malay: Gunung Krakatoa
- Malay: Krakatau
- Malay: Krakatoa
- Malayalam: Krakatoa
- Malayalam: ഇന്തോനേഷ്യന് ദീപ്
- Malayalam: ക്രകതൌ
- Malayalam: ക്രാകത്തോവ പർവ്വതം
- Norwegian: Krakatau
- Norwegian: Krakatoa
- Norwegian Bokmål: Krakatau
- Norwegian Bokmål: Krakatoa
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Krakatau
- Occitan (post 1500): Krakatoa
- Pampanga: Krakatau
- Pampanga: Krakatoa
- Persian: کراکاتوآ
- Persian: کراکاتوا
- Polish: Anak Krakatau
- Polish: Krakatau
- Polish: Krakatoa
- Portuguese: Anak Krakatau
- Portuguese: Anak Krakatoa
- Portuguese: Cracatoa
- Portuguese: Cracatôa
- Portuguese: Ilha de Krakatoa
- Portuguese: Krakatao
- Portuguese: Krakatoa
- Romanian: Krakatau
- Romanian: Krakatoa
- Russian: Кракатау
- Russian: Кракатоа
- Scots: Krakatoa
- Serbian: Кракатау
- Serbo-Croatian: Krakatau
- Serbo-Croatian: Krakatoa
- Sicilian: Krakatau
- Sicilian: Krakatoa
- Slovak: Krakatoa
- Slovenian: Krakatau
- Slovenian: Krakatav
- Slovenian: Krakatoa
- Spanish: Krakatoa
- Spanish: Krakatu
- Spanish: Volcan Krakatoa
- Spanish: Volcán Krakatoa
- Sundanese: Krakatau
- Sundanese: Rakata
- Swedish: Gunung Pulu Rakata
- Swedish: Krakatao
- Swedish: Krakatau
- Swedish: Krakataus
- Swedish: Krakatoa
- Tagalog: Krakatoa
- Tamil: கிரகட்டோவா
- Tamil: கிரக்கத்தோவா
- Thai: กรากะตัว
- Thai: ภูเขาไฟกรากะตัว
- Thai: ภูเขาไฟกรากาตัว
- Turkish: Karakatau
- Turkish: Karakatoa
- Ukrainian: Кракатау
- Urdu: کراکاٹاؤ
- Urdu: کراکاٹو
- Urdu: کراکاٹوا
- Uzbek: Krakatau
- Venetian: Krakatoa
- Vietnamese: Krakatau
- Vietnamese: Krakatoa
- Waray (Philippines): Krakatau
- Welsh: Krakatau
- Welsh: Krakatoa
- Western Frisian: Krakatau
- Western Panjabi: کراکاٹوا
- Wu Chinese: 喀拉喀托火山
- Yakut: Кракатау
- Yue Chinese: 喀拉喀托火山
- क्राकाटोआ
Other Places Named Krakatoa
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Krakatoa. Photo: Uprising, CC BY-SA 3.0.