Soufrière Hills
The British Overseas Territory of Montserrat is an island in the Caribbean, south-east of Puerto Rico. This island was a very popular tourist destination until Hurricane Hugo caused widespread damage in 1989 and then in 1995, the island's volcano, Soufrière Hills, became active.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 421 metres
- Description: volcano on Montserrat in the Caribbean
- Also known as: “Soufriere Hills”, “Soufriere Hills volcano”, “Soufrière Hills volcano”, “Soufrière Hills Volcano (Montserrat)”, and “Soufrière Hills Volcano Hazard Zone”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chances Peak.
Chances Peak
Peak
Photo: CommonismNow, Public domain.
Chances Peak is a summit of the active complex stratovolcano named Soufrière Hills, the youngest volcanic complex on the island of Montserrat, a British overseas territory located in the Caribbean Sea.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Plymouth and Elberton.
Plymouth
Locality
Photo: Xb-70, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Plymouth is a ghost town and the de jure capital of the island of Montserrat, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom located in the Leeward Island chain of the Lesser Antilles, West Indies.
Elberton
Hamlet
Elberton is an abandoned suburb of Richmond Hill, St Anthony Region, Montserrat. It consists mainly of clearings and concrete car parks. It is abandoned because it lies in the 'uninhabitable zone' surrounding the Soufrière Hills volcano after the 1997 eruption of Chances Peak.
Salem
Town
Salem is the most populous town in Montserrat, a British Overseas Territory in the West Indies, situated on the western coast of the island, in St Peter Parish.
Soufrière Hills
- Categories: mountain, stratovolcano, Volcano, and landform
- Location: Montserrat, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
16.70938° or 16° 42′ 34″ northLongitude
-62.17901° or 62° 10′ 44″ westElevation
421 metres (1,381 feet)Open location code
778VPR5C+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
node 321795974OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover Soufrière Hills from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Soufrière Hills” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سوفيرير هيلز”
- Basque: “Soufriere Hills”
- Basque: “Soufrière Hills”
- Catalan: “Soufrière Hills”
- Cebuano: “Soufrière Hills”
- Chinese: “苏弗里埃尔火山”
- Chinese: “苏弗里耶尔火山”
- Chinese: “蘇弗里埃爾火山”
- Czech: “Soufrière Hills”
- Danish: “Soufrière Hills”
- Dutch: “Soufrière”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل سوفرير هيلس”
- Estonian: “Soufriere Hills”
- Estonian: “Soufrière Hills”
- Finnish: “Soufrière Hills”
- French: “Soufrière de Montserrat”
- French: “Soufriere”
- French: “Soufrière”
- German: “Soufriere Hills”
- German: “Soufrière Hills”
- Greek: “Σουφριέρ Χιλς”
- Hebrew: “סופרייר הילס”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Soufriere Hills”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Soufrière Hills”
- Italian: “Soufrière Hills”
- Japanese: “スーフリエール・ヒルズ”
- Korean: “수프리에르힐스”
- Ladin: “Soufrière Hills”
- Latvian: “Sufriērhilss”
- Lithuanian: “Sufriero Kalvos”
- Lithuanian: “Sufriero kalvų ugnikalnis”
- Lombard: “Soufrière”
- Macedonian: “Суфриер Хилс”
- Macedonian: “Суфриер”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Soufriere Hills”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Soufrière Hills”
- Norwegian: “Soufrière Hills”
- Piemontese: “Soufrière”
- Polish: “Soufriere Hills”
- Polish: “Soufrière Hills”
- Portuguese: “Soufriere Hills”
- Portuguese: “Soufrière Hills”
- Portuguese: “Soufrière”
- Russian: “Суфриер-Хиллс”
- Russian: “Суфриер-Хилс”
- Slovak: “Soufriére Hills”
- Slovak: “Soufrière Hills”
- Spanish: “Soufriere Hills”
- Spanish: “Soufrière Hills”
- Swedish: “Soufrière Hills”
- Ukrainian: “Суфрієр-Гіллз”
- Venetian: “Soufrière Hills”
- Welsh: “Bryniau Soufriere”
- Welsh: “Bryniau Soufrière”
- Welsh: “Chances”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Upper Galways Estate and Tar River Estate.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Fort St. George and Plymouth Port.
Lesser Antilles: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Dominica.
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