For 10 points, name this 1883 massive eruption of a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait.
Rogier Verbeek disproved claims that this event persisted for several months. William Ashcroft sketched numerous depictions of Chelsea in the wake of this event. A Karel Capek novel about an inventor named Prokop has a title inspired by this event. In a novel, Professor William Waterford Sherman escapes this event on a platform held aloft by twenty balloons; that novel is William Pene du Bois' The Twenty-One Balloons. An astronomer theorized that the sky in the painting The (*) Scream accurately reflects the effects of this event. It is the subject of Simon Winchester's book subtitled The Day the Earth Exploded and it resulted in summer temperatures dropping as much as 1.2 degrees Celsius in the Northern Hemisphere. For 10 points, name this 1883 massive eruption of a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait.
Rogier Verbeek disproved claims that this event persisted for several months.
Krakatoa eruption