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Soufrière

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Soufrière volcano, 4,048 ft (1,234 m) high, on St. Vincent island, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. On May 7, 1902, the day before the great eruption of Pelée on Martinique island, Soufrière erupted, laying waste a third of St. Vincent, killing more than 1,000 people, and scattering a heavy fall of ash on Barbados island, c.75 mi (120 km) to the east.

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Soufrière

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Soufrière, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, St Lucia, St Vincent 1. ‘Sulfur Mine’ in French.2. Guadeloupe: a volcano.3. Montserrat: hills.4. St Lucia: a town near to a volcanic crater of the same name; this comes from its sulfur springs.5. St Vincent: an active volcano, the name coming from the smell from its eruptions.

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Soufrière

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Soufrière , active volcano, 4,813 ft (1,467 m) high, on Basse-Terre , Guadeloupe, in the Caribbean Sea. Called also La Grande Soufrière, it is the highest mountain in the Lesser Antilles. The volcano erupted in 1976 with no loss of life, as the area had been safely evacuated.

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