Krakatao, a volcanic island in the narrow Strait of Sunda, between Java and Sumatra; was the scene of a terrific eruption in 1883, causing a tidal wave that swept round the globe, and raising quantities of dust that made the sunsets in Britain even more than usually red for three years.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Kovalevsky, Alexander * Kraken