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James Webber, 2010

View in the Island of Cracatoa

The island of Cracatoa is a high, volcanic island, and is the southernmost of a group of islands situated in the entrance of the Strait if Sunda. If people still live there, they are most likely living well, because Cracatoa has many of natural resources, and they are both helpful and renewable. Volcanoes are one of the natural resources. When they erupt, the ash they produce is very nutrient-rich, and it is good for farming. Another main natural resource is the fan palm. The fan palm seems to be the main natural resource. It can be cut down for wood, but it's the leaves and flower buds are what make it special. The leaves can thatch houses, and they can be made into baskets, cups, umbrellas, and tobacco pipes. The flower buds are wounded so that their juice drips into baskets, made of the leaves, tied under them. The juice is then made into toddy or tuoe, a kind of wine. The other natural resources of the island of Cracatoa are the animals and edible plants. For meat, the Cracatoan people eat mostly wild animals like hogs, fowls, fish, and shell-fish. There is a bank of coral, about one hundred feet, that provides turtles for eating and difficulty for boats.