Krakatau Journal: An island paradise that can kill you

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Another comment - on the main article this time. Indonesia was a Dutch colony, not a British one, so it was not "popularized as Krakatoa by the British colonialists" . The island was called "Cracatao" in the "Secret Atlas" of the Dutch East India Company in 1753. By 1883 it was known to the Dutch rulers as Krakatau, but by this time it was on the UK Admiralty Charts as "Krakatoa" hence the mistake when the telegraphs reached London. Check the maps on the website of the National Library of Australia

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