Mount Pelée
Mount Pelée or Mont Pelée is an active volcano at the northern end of Martinique, an island and French overseas department in the Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc of the Caribbean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 1,397 metres
- Description: Active stratovolcano
- Also known as: “Mount Pelee” and “Pelee Peak”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saint-Pierre and Basse-Pointe.
Saint-Pierre
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Saint-Pierre is the former capital of the island of Martinique, nowadays a community of about 5,000 people.
Basse-Pointe
Village
Photo: Aristoi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Basse-Pointe is a town and commune in the French overseas department and region, and island of Martinique. Basse-Pointe is situated 9 km northeast of Mount Pelée.
Mount Pelée
- Categories: stratovolcano, lava dome, mountain, peak, highest point, and landform
- Location: Martinique, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
14.81093° or 14° 48′ 39″ northLongitude
-61.16638° or 61° 9′ 59″ westElevation
1,397 metres (4,583 feet)Open location code
776WRR6M+9COpenStreetMap ID
node 7320642616OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover Mount Pelée from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Mount Pelée” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Berg Pelée”
- Afrikaans: “Pelée”
- Arabic: “مونت بيليه”
- Armenian: “Մոնտան Պելե”
- Asturian: “Monte Pelée”
- Azerbaijani: “Montan-Pele”
- Basque: “Pelée mendia”
- Belarusian: “Мантань-Пеле”
- Breton: “Lamontann Pèlé”
- Bulgarian: “Мон Пеле”
- Catalan: “mont Pelée”
- Catalan: “Mont Pelée”
- Catalan: “Montagne Pelée”
- Catalan: “Muntanya Pelée”
- Catalan: “Volcà Pelé”
- Cebuano: “Montagne Pelée (bolkan sa Martinique)”
- Cebuano: “Montagne Pelée”
- Chinese: “培雷火山”
- Croatian: “Mont Pelée”
- Croatian: “Mount Pelee”
- Czech: “Mont Pelée”
- Dutch: “Mont Pelee”
- Dutch: “Mont Pelée”
- Dutch: “Montagne Pelee”
- Dutch: “Montagne Pelée”
- Dutch: “Mount Pelee”
- Dutch: “Mount Pelée”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مونت بيليه”
- Esperanto: “Monto Pelée”
- Estonian: “Mont Pelée”
- Estonian: “Pelee vulkaan”
- Estonian: “Pelée vulkaan”
- Estonian: “Pelee”
- Estonian: “Pelée”
- Finnish: “Mont Pelee”
- Finnish: “Mont Pelée”
- Finnish: “Mount Pelee”
- Finnish: “Mt. Pelée”
- French: “Montagne Pelee”
- French: “montagne Pelée”
- French: “Montagne Pelée”
- Galician: “Monte Pelée”
- Georgian: “მონტან-პელე”
- German: “Aktivitätsphase des Mont Pele von 1902 bis 1905”
- German: “Aktivitätsphase des Mont Pelé von 1902 bis 1905”
- German: “Mont Pele”
- German: “Mont Pelé”
- German: “Mont Pelée”
- German: “Montagne Pelee”
- German: “Montagne Pelée”
- Greek: “Όρος Πελέ”
- Hebrew: “פלה”
- Hindi: “माउण्ट पीली”
- Hungarian: “Mont Pelée”
- Ido: “Monto Pelée”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Mont Pelee”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Pelee”
- Italian: “La Pelée”
- Italian: “Monte Pelee”
- Italian: “Monte Pelée”
- Japanese: “プレー山”
- Japanese: “ペレ山”
- Japanese: “モンプレー”
- Japanese: “モンペレー”
- Korean: “몽펠레 산”
- Korean: “플레 산”
- Korean: “플레산”
- Ladin: “Mont Pelée”
- Latin: “Mons Calvus”
- Latvian: “Pelē”
- Lithuanian: “Montan Pelė”
- Lithuanian: “Pelė ugnikalnis”
- Lithuanian: “Pelée ugnikalnis”
- Luxembourgish: “Montagne Pelée”
- Macedonian: “Мон Пеле”
- Malay: “Gunung Pelée”
- Maltese: “Mont Pelée”
- Maltese: “Muntanja Pelée”
- Northern Frisian: “Pelée Berag”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Montagne Pelée”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Pelée”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pelée”
- Norwegian: “Montagne Pelée”
- Persian: “کوه پله”
- Polish: “Mont Pelée”
- Polish: “Montagne Pelee”
- Polish: “Montagne Pelée”
- Polish: “Pelée”
- Portuguese: “Monte pelair”
- Portuguese: “Monte Pelee”
- Portuguese: “Monte Pelée”
- Romanian: “Muntele Pelée”
- Russian: “Мон-Пеле”
- Russian: “Монтань-Пеле”
- Scots: “Moont Pelée”
- Serbian: “Мон Пеле”
- Sicilian: “Muntagna Pelée”
- Slovak: “Pelée”
- Slovenian: “Mount Pelée”
- Slovenian: “Mt. Pelée”
- Slovenian: “Pelée”
- Spanish: “La Montagne Pelee”
- Spanish: “La Montagne Pelée”
- Spanish: “Mont Pele”
- Spanish: “Mont Pelé”
- Spanish: “Mont Pelee”
- Spanish: “Mont Pelée”
- Spanish: “Montagne Pelee”
- Spanish: “Montagne Pelée”
- Spanish: “Montana Pele”
- Spanish: “Montana Pelé”
- Spanish: “Montaña Pele”
- Spanish: “Montaña Pelé”
- Spanish: “Montana Pelee”
- Spanish: “Montana Pelée”
- Spanish: “Montaña Pelee”
- Spanish: “Montaña Pelée”
- Spanish: “Monte Pelado”
- Spanish: “Monte Pele”
- Spanish: “Monte Pelé”
- Spanish: “Monte Pelee”
- Spanish: “Monte Pelée”
- Spanish: “Pelee”
- Spanish: “Pelée”
- Spanish: “Volcan Pele”
- Spanish: “Volcan Pelé”
- Spanish: “Volcán Pele”
- Spanish: “Volcán Pelé”
- Spanish: “Volcan Pelee”
- Spanish: “Volcan Pelée”
- Spanish: “Volcán Pelee”
- Spanish: “Volcán Pelée”
- Swedish: “Mont Pelé”
- Swedish: “Montagne Pelée”
- Swedish: “Pelee”
- Swedish: “Pelée”
- Tamil: “பெலே எரிமலை”
- Tamil: “பெலே மலை”
- Thai: “เขาเปอเล”
- Thai: “ภูเขาไฟเปอเล”
- Turkish: “Pelée Dağı”
- Turkish: “Pelée yanardağı”
- Turkish: “Pelee”
- Turkish: “Pelée”
- Ukrainian: “Монтань-Пеле”
- Ukrainian: “Пелі”
- Venetian: “La Pelée”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Pelée”
- Welsh: “Mont Pelée”
- Welsh: “Montagne Pelée”
- Welsh: “Mynydd Pelée”
- Wu Chinese: “培雷火山”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Savane Anatole and Grand Champ.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cône de 1929 and Sommet ouest.
Martinique: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Fort-de-France, Saint-Pierre, Sainte-Anne, and Le Carbet.
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