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sumatra
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[ noun ] (geography) a mountainous island in western Indonesia
Used in print (L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)The most infamous of all was launched by the explosion of the island of Krakatoa in 1883 ; it raced across the Pacific at 300 miles an hour , devastated the coasts of Java and Sumatra with waves 100 to 130 feet high , and pounded the shore as far_away as San_Francisco . |
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