<em><u>Earth's rotation is the rotation of Planet Eartharound its own axis. Earth rotates eastward, in prograde motion. ... The South Pole is the other point where Earth's axis of rotationintersects its surface, in Antarctica.</u></em>
The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa (Indonesian: Krakatau ) in the Sunda Strait began on the afternoon of Sunday, 26 August 1883—with origins as early as May of that year—and peaked on the late morning of Monday, 27 August 1883, when over 70% of the island of Krakatoa and its surrounding archipelago were destroyed as it collapsed into a caldera.
