Montserrat
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Montserrat is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about 16 km long and
A view of half of the coastline of Little Bay, and a glimpse of Carrs Bay, taken from partway up the headland between Little Bay and Rendezvous Bay, 2012
Barquentine 'Hilda' loading lime juice
Montserrat's coastline
Eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano on 22 September 1997
Plymouth, Montserrat
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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. It is
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…Caribbean. On 18 July 1995, the previously dormant Soufrière Hills volcano in the southern end of the island became active, and its eruptions destroyed Plymouth, Montserrat's Georgian-era capital city situated on the west coast. Between 1995 and 2000, two-thirds of the island's population was forced to flee…
Plymouth in 2006, following the 1997 eruptions that buried most of the town in ash
By 12 July 1997, pyroclastic flows had burned much of what had not already been covered in ash
Plymouth in 2012, showing the revegetation of the zone buried by ash.
A church after the eruption.