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- ↑ Thornton, Ian W. B. (1997). Krakatau: the destruction and reassembly of an island ecosystem (reprint, illustrated ed.). Harvard University Press. p. 307. ISBN 978-0-674-50572-8 . Retrieved 27 October 2010.
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- ↑ Thornton, I. W. B. (1996). Krakatau : the destruction and reassembly of an island ecosystem. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. p. 307. ISBN 0-674-50568-9. OCLC 32666286.
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