Sound range of the Krakatoa explosions mb-code 2324868 It was restored by apprentices

It was restored by apprentices at the Kidbrooke Central Repair Depot of the Post Office

The summer weather of 1888 was obviously no more reliable than it is now

View of St Thomas Chapel

both civilians and men in uniform

bottom right: 'Celebrating the Regent's birth-day with a jolly row

Sound range of the Krakatoa explosions mb-code 2324868 It was restored by apprenticesMap showing the geographical range of humans hearing the explosions generated during the eruption of Krakatoa, the island in the Sunda Strait, Indonesia on 27 August 1883. Plate 16 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 XVI. MAP SHOWING THE PLACES AT WHICH THE SOUNDS