Krakatoa tsumami wave 7 musicians Billy Idol at Download Festival

Billy Idol at Download Festival 2010

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Krakatoa tsumami wave 7 musicians Billy Idol at Download FestivalTwo figures showing the passage of the seventh wave generated by the eruption of Krakatoa, the island in the Sunda Strait, Indonesia on 27 August 1883. Plate 13 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 XIII. WAVE NO. VII FOURTH PASSAGE FROM KRAKATOA TO THE ANTIPODES.