Plymouth
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: de jure capital of Montserrat, West Indies, now a ghost town
- Also known as: “Plymouth, Montserrat”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Soufrière Hills.
Soufrière Hills
Volcano
Photo: CommonismNow, Public domain.
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. Soufrière Hills is situated 3½ km east of Plymouth.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elberton and Olveston.
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. Elberton is situated 3 km northwest of Plymouth.
Olveston
Neighborhood
Olveston is a village on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. The settlement was created as a plantation, one of two on Montserrat which were bought by Joseph Sturge to demonstrate that slavery was unnecessary. Olveston is situated 5 km north of Plymouth.
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. Salem is situated 5 km north of Plymouth.
Plymouth
- Categories: city, ghost town, ruins, and historic site
- Location: Saint Anthony Parish, Montserrat, Montserrat, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
16.70546° or 16° 42′ 20″ northLongitude
-62.21256° or 62° 12′ 45″ westOpen location code
778VPQ4P+5XOpenStreetMap ID
way 409348493OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsOpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Plymouth” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Plymouth, Montserrat”
- Afrikaans: “Plymouth”
- Arabic: “بليموث، مونتسيرات”
- Arabic: “بليموث”
- Asturian: “Plymouth”
- Azerbaijani: “Plimut”
- Basque: “Plymouth”
- Belarusian: “Плімут (Мантсерат)”
- Belarusian: “Плімут”
- Bosnian: “Plymouth”
- Breton: “Plymouth (Montserrat)”
- Breton: “Plymouth”
- Bulgarian: “Плимут”
- Bulgarian: “Плимът”
- Catalan: “Plymouth”
- Chinese: “Plymouth”
- Chinese: “普利茅夫”
- Chinese: “普利茅斯”
- Croatian: “Plymouth (Montserrat)”
- Croatian: “Plymouth”
- Czech: “Plymouth”
- Danish: “Plymouth”
- Dutch: “Plymouth”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بليموث”
- Esperanto: “Plimuto”
- Finnish: “Plymouth”
- French: “Plymouth”
- Galician: “Plymouth, Montserrat”
- Galician: “Plymouth”
- Georgian: “პლიმუთი”
- German: “Plymouth”
- Greek: “Plymouth”
- Greek: “Πλίμουθ”
- Greek: “Πλύμουθ”
- Hebrew: “פלימות‘”
- Hebrew: “פלימות’”
- Hebrew: “פלימות”
- Hungarian: “Plymouth”
- Icelandic: “Plymouth”
- Ido: “Plymouth, Montserrat”
- Ido: “Plymouth”
- Indonesian: “Plymouth, Montserrat”
- Indonesian: “Plymouth”
- Irish: “Plymouth”
- Italian: “Plymouth”
- Japanese: “プリマス”
- Kazakh: “Плимут (Монтсеррат)”
- Kazakh: “Плимут”
- Korean: “플리머스”
- Latvian: “Plimuta”
- Ligurian: “Plymouth, Montserrat”
- Lithuanian: “Plimutas”
- Lombard: “Plymouth”
- Low German: “Plymouth”
- Macedonian: “Плимут”
- Malay: “Plymouth, Montserrat”
- Malay: “Plymouth”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Plymouth”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Plymouth”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Plymouth på Montserrat”
- Norwegian: “Plymouth”
- Novial: “Plymouth”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Plymouth”
- Ossetian: “Плимут (Монтсеррат)”
- Ossetian: “Плимут”
- Persian: “پلیموث، مونتسرات”
- Piemontese: “Plymouth”
- Polish: “Plymouth”
- Portuguese: “Plymouth”
- Romanian: “Plymouth, Montserrat”
- Romanian: “Plymouth”
- Russian: “Плимут”
- Sardinian: “Plymouth (Montserrat)”
- Sardinian: “Plymouth”
- Scots: “Plymouth”
- Serbian: “Плимут”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Plymouth”
- Slovak: “Plymouth”
- Spanish: “Plymouth”
- Swedish: “Plymouth, Montserrat”
- Swedish: “Plymouth”
- Tamil: “பிளிமத், மொன்செராட்”
- Tamil: “பிளிமத்”
- Thai: “พลิมัท”
- Turkish: “Plymouth, Montserrat”
- Turkish: “Plymouth”
- Ukrainian: “Плімут”
- Urdu: “پلایماؤت، مانٹسریٹ”
- Urdu: “پلایماؤت”
- Vietnamese: “Plymouth, Montserrat”
- Vietnamese: “Plymouth”
- Waray (Philippines): “Plymouth, Montserrat”
- Waray (Philippines): “Plymouth”
- Wu Chinese: “普利茅斯 (蒙特塞拉特)”
- Wu Chinese: “普利茅斯（蒙特塞拉特）”
- Yoruba: “Plymouth, Montserrat”
- Yoruba: “Plymouth”
- Yue Chinese: “普利茅夫”
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Notable Places Nearby
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