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Some Victorian scientists viewed the discoveries as evidence of a primordial flood, possibly Noah's. A few linked extinctions to the fury of volcanoes; their conjecture was based on the extraordinary explosion in 1883 of Krakatoa, a volcano between Java and Sumatra, which darkened the skies and triggered a giant tidal wave that drowned 36,000 people...
...Pacific and the Indian Ocean-and the choke point through which passes virtually all of the Middle Eastern oil on which Japan's economy depends-is the Strait of Malacca, a channel 30 miles wide at its narrowest point, between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Here too Soviet naval activity has been on the rise, in both obvious and not-so-obvious ways. Soviet destroyers, cruisers and diesel-powered, torpedo-firing Foxtrot submarines have been passing through the strait at the rate of about six a month, while nuclear-powered Echo-class subs, armed with...
...ocean floor more than 1,100 ft. deep and 6½ miles wide; islands 50 miles away were showered with fiery boulders weighing as much as 70 Ibs. The explosion caused 130-ft. tidal waves that swept over hundreds of villages on nearby islands, including Java and Sumatra, and drowned...
From Saudi Arabia to Sumatra, from Nigeria to the North Sea, up comes the oil. And every day, 24 hours a day?at a rate of 30,000 gallons per second?the petroleum-thirsting world swills it back down in desperate, energizing gulps...
...England's most famous contemporary explorer, the peaceful intervention on Sumatra was almost a workaday mission. As head of an unusual London-based organization called Survival International, Hanbury-Tenison has been aiding endangered tribal peoples for a decade. By his reckoning, what happened to Sumatra's Mentaweians could have befallen almost any of some 3 million people in a dozen countries round the world who pursue simple lives as hunters and gatherers or as nomadic herdsmen...