In the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra, the Earth has been busy making new land. Over the last month, not one but two new islands have reportedly emerged around Anak Krakatau (or Krakatoa), the perpetually restless “Child of Krakatoa.” Mount Anak Krakatau (Bahasa Indonesia for “Child of Krakatoa”) has added an estimated 81 acres (32.8 hectares) of land during a prodigious eruption between September 4th and 6th, Jakarta Globe . Krakatau is a relatively young and recently active volcano, whose caldera—from which the recent eruptions are believed to have sprung—formed in 1883 following its initial and most catastrophic eruption to date, which destroyed the very island of Krakatoa. How like a child, indeed. Krakatau has shown bouts of both creation and destruction by land and sea ever since, including its partial collapse resulting in the December 22, 2018 Sunda Strait tsunami.…