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: “Goat Rocks dome”, “Lawala Clough”, “Low-We-Lat-Klah”, “Low-We-Not-Thlat”, “Mount Saint Helens”, “Saint Helens”, “Saint Helens, Mount”, and “St. Helens”
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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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mount St. Helens” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Afrikaans: “Mount St Helens”
  • Afrikaans: “Saint Helens”
  • Albanian: “Sh. Elena”
  • Albanian: “Shën Elena”
  • Arabic: “جبل سانت هيلين”
  • Arabic: “مونت سان هيلين”
  • Asturian: “Monte Santa Helena”
  • Azerbaijani: “Müqəddəs Helens dağı”
  • Bashkir: “Сент-Хеленс”
  • Basque: “Saint Helens”
  • Belarusian: “Гара Святой Алены”
  • Belarusian: “Сент-Хеленс”
  • Belarusian: “Сэнт-Гэленз”
  • Bengali: “সেন্ট হেলেনস পর্বত”
  • Bulgarian: “Света Елена”
  • Bulgarian: “Сейнт Хелънс”
  • Catalan: “Erupció del Mont St. Helens de 1980”
  • Catalan: “Erupció del Saint Helens”
  • Catalan: “Mont Saint-Helens”
  • Catalan: “Mount St Helens”
  • Catalan: “Muntanya Saint Helens”
  • Catalan: “Saint Helens”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Chinese: “圣海伦斯火山”
  • Chinese: “圣海伦火山”
  • Chinese: “聖希倫斯山”
  • Chinese: “聖海倫斯火山”
  • Chinese: “聖海倫火山”
  • Croatian: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Croatian: “St. Helens”
  • Czech: “Hora St. Helens”
  • Czech: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Czech: “Mount Sant Helens”
  • Czech: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Danish: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Danish: “Mt. Helens”
  • Dutch: “Berg Saint Helens”
  • Dutch: “Mount Helen”
  • Dutch: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Dutch: “Mount St Helens”
  • Dutch: “Sint Helensberg”
  • Dutch: “Sint-Helensberg”
  • Esperanto: “Monto Saint Helens”
  • Esperanto: “Saint Helens”
  • Estonian: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Estonian: “Saint Helens”
  • Estonian: “Saint Helensi mägi”
  • Estonian: “Saint Helensi vulkaan”
  • Estonian: “St Helens”
  • Faroese: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Finnish: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Finnish: “Mt. Saint Helens”
  • Finnish: “Mt. St. Helens”
  • Finnish: “St. Helens”
  • French: “Le mont Saint-Helens”
  • French: “Mont Saint Hélène”
  • French: “mont Saint Helens”
  • French: “Mont Saint Helens”
  • French: “Mont Sainte-Hélène”
  • French: “Mont St-Helens”
  • French: “Mont st. helens”
  • French: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Galician: “Monte Santa Helena”
  • Georgian: “სენტ-ჰელენზი”
  • German: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • German: “Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument”
  • German: “Mount St. Helens”
  • German: “Mt. Saint Helens”
  • Greek: “Αγία Ελένη (όρος)”
  • Greek: “όρος Αγίας Ελένης”
  • Greek: “Όρος της Αγίας Ελένης”
  • Hawaiian: “Mauna Kana Helena”
  • Hebrew: “הר סיינט הלנס”
  • Hebrew: “הר סנט הלנס”
  • Hebrew: “סנט הלנס”
  • Hindi: “माउण्ट सेण्ट हेलेन्स”
  • Hungarian: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Hungarian: “St. Helens-hegy”
  • Icelandic: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Ido: “Monto Santa Helena”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Saint Helens”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung St. Helens”
  • Irish: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Irish: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Italian: “Monte Saint Helens”
  • Italian: “Monte Sant’Elena”
  • Japanese: “セント・ヘレンズ山”
  • Japanese: “セントへレンズ山”
  • Japanese: “セントヘレンズ山”
  • Korean: “세인트 헬렌스 산”
  • Korean: “세인트헬렌 산”
  • Korean: “세인트헬렌스산”
  • Kurdish: “Çiyayê Saint Helens”
  • Kurdish: “Çiyayê St. Helens”
  • Ladin: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Latin: “Mons Sanctae Helenae”
  • Latvian: “Senthelēna kalns”
  • Latvian: “Senthelēnas kalns”
  • Latvian: “Senthelensa kalns”
  • Latvian: “Senthelensa”
  • Latvian: “Svētā Helēna kalns”
  • Latvian: “Svētās Helēnas kalns”
  • Lithuanian: “Šv elenos kalnas”
  • Lithuanian: “Šv. Elenos kalnas”
  • Lithuanian: “Šv. Elenos ugnikalnis”
  • Lithuanian: “Šv.Elenos kalnas”
  • Macedonian: “Сент Хеленс”
  • Malay: “Gunung Berapi St. Helens”
  • Malay: “Gunung St. Helens”
  • Malayalam: “സെന്റ് ഹെലൻസ് പർവ്വതം”
  • Marathi: “माउंट सेंट हेलेन्स”
  • Nepali: “सेन्ट हेलेन्स पर्वत”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Norwegian: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mont Saint Helens”
  • Persian: “آتشفشان سنت هلن”
  • Persian: “اتشفشان سنت هلن”
  • Persian: “كوه سنت هلن”
  • Persian: “کوه سنت هلن”
  • Persian: “کوهٔ سنت هلن”
  • Polish: “Góra Świętej Heleny”
  • Polish: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Polish: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Polish: “St. Helen”
  • Portuguese: “Monte de Santa Helena”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Saint Helens”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Santa Helena”
  • Portuguese: “Monte St. Helens”
  • Portuguese: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Portuguese: “Vulcão de santa helena”
  • Portuguese: “Vulcão Santa Helena”
  • Romanian: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Romansh: “Mount St. Helens”
  • Russian: “Гора св. Елены”
  • Russian: “Сент-Хеленс”
  • Serbian: “Сент Хеленс (вулкан)”
  • Serbian: “Сент Хеленс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Slovak: “Saint Helens”
  • Slovak: “Svätá Helena”
  • Slovenian: “Gora Svete Helene”
  • Slovenian: “Sveta Helena”
  • Spanish: “Monte Saint Helens”
  • Spanish: “Monte Santa Elena”
  • Spanish: “Monte Santa Helena”
  • Spanish: “Monte St Helen”
  • Spanish: “Monte St Helens”
  • Spanish: “Monte St. Helens”
  • Spanish: “Mount St Helens”
  • Swahili: “Mlima St Helens”
  • Swedish: “Mount S:t Helens”
  • Swedish: “Mount Saint Helens”
  • Swedish: “Mount Sankt Helens”
  • Swedish: “Mount St Helens”
  • Swedish: “S:t Helens”
  • Swedish: “Sankt Helens”
  • Tagalog: “Bundok St. Helens”
  • Tamil: “சென் ஹெலன்ஸ் மலை”
  • Tamil: “புனித எலன்சு மலை”
  • Thai: “ภูเขาไฟเซนต์เฮเลนส์”
  • Turkish: “Saint Helen Yanardağı”
  • Turkish: “St. Helens Dağı”
  • Turkish: “St. Helens Yanardağı”
  • Ukrainian: “гора Св. Єлени”
  • Ukrainian: “Сент-Геленс”
  • Urdu: “ماؤنٹ سینٹ ہیلنس”
  • Uzbek: “Sent Helens togʻi”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi St. Helens”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Santa Helena”
  • Welsh: “Mt st Helens”
  • Welsh: “Mynydd St Helens”
  • 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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