Krakatoa (disambiguation)

Krakatoa (also spelt Krakatau or Krakatao) may refer to:

• Krakatoa, a volcano in Indonesia
  • 1883 eruption of Krakatoa
• Krakatoa documentary and historical materials

Krakatoa in media and popular culture

Films:

• Krakatoa (film), a 1933 American short documentary film
• Fair Wind to Java, a 1953 film based on the novel by Garland Roark
• Krakatoa, East of Java (1969) In plot it is basically a remake of Fair Wind to Java.
• Krakatoa: The Last Days, a 2006 film about the Krakatoa eruption
• Krakatoa, a TV movie made in 2008 that starred Sasha Waddell, Nick Ewans and Pavel Douglas

Books:

• The Twenty-One Balloons (1947), a science fiction novel about a professor who is stranded in Krakatoa
• Krakatoa, East of Java (1969); a novelization of the movie by Michael Avallone
• Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded (2005), book by Simon Winchester

Music:

• "Krakatoa", a song by heavy metal band Saxon, released only on a "best of"-album
• "Krakatoa", a mostly-spoken song by Styx on their album The Serpent Is Rising
• "Krakatau", an instrumental song by Swedish-born guitar virtuoso Yngwie J. Malmsteen on his 1988 album Odyssey
• Krakatoa (band) Hans Zimmer

Not directly related to the volcano

• Krakatoa (explosive), a demolitions device
• Krakatoa (rendering software), a volumetric particle rendering, manipulation and management toolkit by Thinkbox Software

See also

• Krakatit, a 1948 science fiction film directed by Otakar Vávra based on the 1922 novel by Karel Čapek; both deal with the invention of an explosive krakatit