Krakatoa tsumami waves 1 and 2 Size:L: 75 x 60cm Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers

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Krakatoa tsumami waves 1 and 2 Size:L: 75 x 60cm Peter SellersFour figures showing the ocean tracks of the first and second tsunami waves generated by the eruption of Krakatoa, the island in the Sunda Strait, Indonesia on 27 August 1883. Plate 10 from The eruption of Krakatoa, and subsequent phenomena. Report of the Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society, edited by G. J. Symons (London, Trubner & Co., 1888). The plate is inscribed: 'Krakatoa. Rep. Roy. Soc. Com. Plate X. WAVE NO. I FIRST PASSAGE FROM KRAKATOA