Editing Krakatoa (section)

==In popular culture==
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[[File:The Scream.jpg|thumb|right|upright=.9|In 2004, an astronomer suggested that the blood-red sky shown in [[Edvard Munch]]'s famous 1893 painting ''[[The Scream]]'' depicts the sky over [[Norway]] after the eruption.<ref>{{Cite news| agency=Reuters| title=Krakatoa provided backdrop to Munch's scream| newspaper=The Age| date=11 December 2003| url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/10/1070732277751.html| location=Melbourne| access-date=15 November 2010| archive-date=23 June 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623121915/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/10/1070732277751.html| url-status=live}}; {{Cite news| agency=Reuters| title=Why the sky was red in Munch's 'The Scream'| date=10 December 2003| url=http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/10/scream.munch.reut/| publisher=CNN| access-date=15 November 2010| archive-date=16 November 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116125706/http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/10/scream.munch.reut/| url-status=live}}; {{Cite news| last=Panek| first=Richard| title='The Scream,' East of Krakatoa| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| date=8 February 2004| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/arts/design/08PANE.html| access-date=15 November 2010| archive-date=1 June 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601090808/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/arts/art-the-scream-east-of-krakatoa.html| url-status=live}}</ref>]]
[[File:Indonesia 1992 100r r.jpg|thumb|upright=1|right|Krakatoa featured in [[Indonesian rupiah|100-rupiah banknote]] ]]

A large part of the 1947 children's novel ''[[The Twenty-One Balloons]]'' by [[William Pene du Bois]] takes place on Krakatoa, just before and then during the 1883 eruption. In Pene du Bois's tale, 25 families have established a fanciful colony drawing vast wealth from fictional diamond mines on the island until the eruption scatters the inhabitants and destroys the mines.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

Krakatoa has been featured as a subject and a part of the story in various television and film dramas. In the 1953 film ''[[Fair Wind to Java]]'', an American sea captain and a pirate leader race one another to recover a fortune in [[diamond]]s hidden on Krakatoa, which begins its final eruption as they search the island for the treasure.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fair Wind to Java (1953)|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/74458/fair-wind-to-java|access-date=2023-02-07|website=Turner Classic Movies
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In 1961, the anthology series ''[[Alcoa_Presents:_One_Step_Beyond|One Step Beyond]]'' ended its run with the episode "Eye Witness," which dramatized the mysterious reporting of Krakatoa's eruption weeks before the news could have reached the newspaper in Boston.

The island was a prominent part of the plot of '"Crack of Doom," episode six of the [[Irwin Allen]] television series ''[[The Time Tunnel]]'' in 1966.<ref name="Time Tunnel">{{cite web |title="Time Tunnel" Crack of Doom |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0723753/plotsummary/#:~:text=Tony%20and%20Doug%20are%20transported%20to%20Krakatoa%2C%20a%20volcanic%20island%20between%20Java%20and%20Sumatra%20in%20great%20activity%2C%20and%20the%20blowup%20seems%20to%20be%20imminent. |website=IMDb |access-date=29 April 2023}}</ref>

It was also featured as the main part of the story line in the 1969 film, ''[[Krakatoa, East of Java]]'' (retitled ''Volcano'' in a re-release in the 1970s; the title contains a rather large geographical error, as Krakatoa is ''west'' of Java), which depicts an effort to salvage a priceless cargo of [[pearl]]s located perilously close to the erupting volcano.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

An Indonesian martial arts action film, ''Krakatau'' (1977), starring [[Dicky Zulkarnaen]] and [[Advent Bangun]], set the story on the mountain.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}} 

It has been the subject of a 2006 television drama, ''Krakatoa: Volcano of Destruction'' and again in 2008 as ''Krakatoa''.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

In Klaus Teuber's board game ''[[Seafarers of Catan]]'', the "Krakatoa Variant" is a scenario involving an island composed of three volcano tiles.<ref>{{cite web| title=Krakatoa Bay| url=http://www.catanmaps.com/krakatoa-bay/| website=Catan Maps| access-date=2 May 2015| archive-date=4 March 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041901/http://www.catanmaps.com/krakatoa-bay/| url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1973, the American progressive rock band [[Styx (band)|Styx]] released a spoken-word track called "Krakatoa" on its album ''[[The Serpent Is Rising]].'' Written by then-guitarist [[John Curulewski]] along with [[Paul Beaver]] and [[Bernie Krause]], the song tells the story of Krakatoa's eruption and the subsequent return of life to the island.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

The British heavy metal band [[Saxon (band)|Saxon]] also released a song about the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, called "Krakatoa", on the 2010 re-release of its 1985 album ''[[Innocence Is No Excuse]]''.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}