Sound range of the Krakatoa explosions disaster Neptune is sent overboard

Neptune is sent overboard

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a 'mutual accommodation' was reached whereby Britain made a loan of £2m in gold upon receiving a deposit of the same sum in silver from France

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Sound range of the Krakatoa explosions disaster Neptune is sent overboardMap showing the geographical range of humans hearing the explosions generated during the eruption of Krakatoa, the island in the Sunda Strait, Indonesia on 27 August 1883. Plate 16 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 XVI. MAP SHOWING THE PLACES AT WHICH THE SOUNDS