Get Mount Tambora Krakatoa PNG. Eruption of the volcano at mount tambora in 1815 was the largest volcanic eruption of the 19th it has been estimated that mount tambora stood approximately 12,000 feet tall before the 1815. By any measure, tambora was a substantially larger volcanic eruption that krakatoa.
Mount tambora (gunung tambora) is located on the island of sumbawa in west nusa tenggara, indonesia.
See also krakatoa for an account of another even more famous explosion of a volcano in indonesia. Do not confuse mount tambora with krakatoa. Mount tambora was a much more powerful eruption, more people were killed as a result, and it was only 50 (ish) yrs before so why is krakatoa more famous? The cold rain ended up ruining a june 1816 outing in switzerland for mary shelley, percy shelley, lord byron and john polidori.