Mount St. Helens

Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument is a United States national monument in southwest that was the site of a massive volcanic eruption on 18 May 1980.
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 6,818 feet
  • Description: volcano in Washington state
  • Also known as: “Berg Saint Helens”, “Çiyayê St. Helens”, “Erupció del Mont St. Helens de 1980”, “Erupció del Saint Helens”, “Goat Rocks dome”, “Gora Svete Helene”, “Góra Świętej Heleny”, “Gunung Berapi St. Helens”, “Gunung Saint Helens”, “Hora St. Helens”, “Lawala Clough”, “Le mont Saint-Helens”, “Low-We-Lat-Klah”, “Low-We-Not-Thlat”, “Mont Saint Hélène”, “Mont Saint-Helens”, “Mont Sainte-Hélène”, “Mont st. helens”, “Monte de Santa Helena”, “Monte Sant’Elena”, “Monte Santa Elena”, “Monte St Helen”, “Monte St Helens”, “Monte St. Helens”, “Mount Helen”, “Mount S:t Helens”, “Mount Saint Helens”, “Mount Sankt Helens”, “Mount Sant Helens”, “Mount St Helens”, “Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument”, “Mt st Helens”, “Mt. Helens”, “Mt. Saint Helens”, “Mt. St. Helens”, “Muntanya Saint Helens”, “Mynydd St Helens”, “S:t Helens”, “Saint Helen Yanardağı”, “Saint Helens, Mount”, “Saint Helensi mägi”, “Saint Helensi vulkaan”, “Sankt Helens”, “Sent Helensas”, “Senthelēna kalns”, “Senthelēnas kalns”, “Senthelensa”, “Sh. Elena”, “Sint Helensberg”, “Sint-Helensberg”, “St Helens”, “St. Helen”, “St. Helens Dağı”, “St. Helens-hegy”, “Šv elenos kalnas”, “Šv. Elenos ugnikalnis”, “Šv.Elenos kalnas”, “Svätá Helena”, “Svētā Helēna kalns”, “Svētās Helēnas kalns”, “Vulcão de santa helena”, “Vulcão Santa Helena”, “όρος Αγίας Ελένης”, “Гара Святой Алены”, “Гора св. Елены”, “гора Св. Єлени”, “הר סיינט הלנס”, “סנט הלנס”, “آتشفشان سنت هلن”, “اتشفشان سنت هلن”, “كوه سنت هلن”, “کوهٔ سنت هلن”, “مونت سان هيلين”, “சென் ஹெலன்ஸ் மலை”, “세인트 헬렌스 산”, “세인트헬렌 산”, “セントへレンズ山”, and “聖希倫斯山”
Photo: U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region, Public domain.
Photo: SounderBruce, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Mount St. Helens

Latitude
46.1914° or 46° 11′ 29″ north
Longitude
-122.1955° or 122° 11′ 44″ west
Elevation
6,818 feet (2,078 metres)
Open location code
84RV5RR3+HQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 356546327
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
5809218
Wiki­data ID
Q4675
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mount St. Helens” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Albanian: “Shën Elena”
  • Arabic: “جبل سانت هيلين”
  • Asturian: “Monte Santa Helena”
  • Azerbaijani: “Müqəddəs Helens dağı”
  • Bashkir: “Сент-Хеленс”
  • Basque: “Saint Helens”
  • Belarusian: “Сент-Хеленс”
  • Belarusian: “Сэнт-Гэленз”
  • Bengali: “সেন্ট হেলেনস পর্বত”
  • Bulgarian: “Света Елена”
  • Bulgarian: “Сейнт Хелънс”
  • Catalan: “Saint Helens”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Chinese: “圣海伦斯火山”
  • Chinese: “圣海伦火山”
  • Chinese: “聖海倫斯火山”
  • Croatian: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Czech: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Danish: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Dutch: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Esperanto: “Monto Saint Helens”
  • Estonian: “Saint Helens”
  • Faroese: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Finnish: “St. Helens”
  • French: “mont Saint Helens”
  • French: “Mont Saint Helens”
  • French: “Mont St-Helens”
  • Galician: “Monte Santa Helena”
  • Georgian: “სენტ-ჰელენზი”
  • German: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Greek: “Αγία Ελένη (όρος)”
  • Greek: “Όρος της Αγίας Ελένης”
  • Hawaiian: “Mauna Kana Helena”
  • Hebrew: “הר סנט הלנס”
  • Hindi: “माउण्ट सेण्ट हेलेन्स”
  • Hungarian: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Icelandic: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Ido: “Monto Santa Helena”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung St. Helens”
  • Irish: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Irish: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Italian: “Monte Saint Helens”
  • Japanese: “セント・ヘレンズ山”
  • Japanese: “セントヘレンズ山”
  • Korean: “세인트헬렌스산”
  • Kurdish: “Çiyayê Saint Helens”
  • Ladin: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Latin: “Mons Sanctae Helenae”
  • Latvian: “Senthelensa kalns”
  • Lithuanian: “Šv. Elenos kalnas”
  • Macedonian: “Сент Хеленс”
  • Malay: “Gunung St. Helens”
  • Malayalam: “സെന്റ് ഹെലൻസ് പർവ്വതം”
  • Marathi: “माउंट सेंट हेलेन्स”
  • Nepali: “सेन्ट हेलेन्स पर्वत”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Norwegian: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mont Saint Helens”
  • Persian: “کوه سنت هلن”
  • Polish: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Santa Helena”
  • Romanian: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Romansh: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Russian: “Сент-Хеленс”
  • Serbian: “Сент Хеленс (вулкан)”
  • Serbian: “Сент Хеленс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Slovak: “Saint Helens”
  • Slovenian: “Sveta Helena”
  • Spanish: “Monte Santa Helena”
  • Swahili: “Mlima St Helens”
  • Swedish: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Tagalog: “Bundok St. Helens”
  • Tamil: “புனித எலன்சு மலை”
  • Thai: “ภูเขาไฟเซนต์เฮเลนส์”
  • Turkish: “St. Helens Yanardağı”
  • Ukrainian: “Сент-Геленс”
  • Urdu: “ماؤنٹ سینٹ ہیلنس”
  • Uzbek: “Sent Helens togʻi”
  • Vietnamese: “núi St. Helens”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi St. Helens”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Santa Helena”
  • Welsh: “Mynydd St. Helens”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣海伦斯火山”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣海伦火山”
  • Yue Chinese: “聖海倫火山”
  • “Mount St. Helens”

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