Oh, the Places You Won’t Go. Nordvest-Spitsbergen National Park.
On April 10, 1815 the most powerful volcanic eruption in human history was recorded on an island in Indonesia. The ash cloud that formed by its explosion was as large and the entire country of the United States and hovered close to 12 miles above the earth, reaching the stratosphere. The results were catastrophic. It resulted in major climate changes, where in most of the world, summer never came. Wildlife and humans alike were left without sources of food while the landscapes changed around them. Roughly 100,000 people died in the immediately aftermath, but the death toll is estimated to be closer to 1 million around the globe. The time following the eruption has now been remembered in history as The Year Without a Summer.
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Sources History, The New Yorker, Balloon Museum, Aurora Expeditions, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Scary Interesting, A Nordic HeartBook – The Expedition: Solving a Polar Tragedy by Bea Uusma
