original art: drawing. Krakatoa is today a volcanic archipelago, now consisting of four islands, in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra. These are both the products and remains of an ancient history of volcanic eruptions of which the most famous was in 1883. This totally destroyed two-thirds of Krakatoa itself, then the main island of three, leaving what is now known as Rakata (the name of its highest peak) as the modern remnant. In 1927, the present fourth island, Anak Krakatau (child of Krakatoa) emerged from the submerged caldera of the 1883 eruption north of Rakata and remains an active site. It was a massive volcanic collapse into the sea there that created the lethal Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2018, which killed over 200,000, mainly on the eastern side. The other two islands, north of Rakata and Anak Krakatau, are Lang and Verlaten. Both are remnants of prehistoric volcanic activity, the earliest recorded eruption being in AD/CE 416. In this image the view appears to be roughly from the south-east, with Krakatoa proper on the left, Lang n the right and Verlaten beyond. [PvdM 3/22]