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2 new islands appear near Indonesia’s Anak Krakatoa volcano after eruption

South China Morning Post 02 October 2026 4h ago
2 new islands appear near Indonesia’s Anak Krakatoa volcano after eruption
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Two new islands have appeared off Anak Krakatoa, potentially the first in nearly a century to emerge within the caldera left by Krakatoa’s catastrophic 1883 eruption. The formations, discovered following a 25-hour eruption in early September, sit hundreds of metres off opposite sides of Anak Krakatoa – one to the northwest and the other to the southeast – almost on a straight line through the volc
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