Chances Peak
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: CommonismNow, Public domain.
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.
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.
Chances Peak
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 915 metres
- Description: mountain in Montserrat
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Saint Anthony Parish, Montserrat, Montserrat, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
16.71143° or 16° 42′ 41″ northLongitude
-62.17509° or 62° 10′ 30″ westElevation
915 metres (3,002 feet)Open location code
778VPR6F+HXOpenStreetMap ID
node 10661806625OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Chances Peak” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Chances Peak”
- Chinese: “昌色斯峰”
- Czech: “Chances Peak”
- Czech: “Nejvyšší hora Montserratu”
- Dutch: “Chances Peak”
- Japanese: “チャンスピーク”
- Japanese: “チャンセス・ピーク”
- Ladin: “Chances Peak”
- Spanish: “Pico Chances”
- Swedish: “Chances Peak”
- Ukrainian: “Чансес-Пік”
- Ukrainian: “Ченсез-Пік”
- Ukrainian: “Ченсес-Пік”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Tar River Estate and Long Ground.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Fort St. George and Plymouth Port.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Chances Peak”. Photo: CommonismNow, Public domain.