Chances Peak

mountain, Montserrat, West Indies

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Chances Peak was the highest point on the island of Montserrat in the West Indies until the mid-1990s. Located in the Soufrière Hills, it stood at 3,000 feet (915 meters). Montserrat is an island and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, part of the Lesser Antilles chain in the Caribbean Sea.1

In July 1995, volcanic eruptions began in the Soufrière Hills, dramatically altering the landscape. These eruptions caused volcanic domes to grow and collapse, leading to fatalities and destruction of land and villages by pyroclastic flow. The capital city, Plymouth, was destroyed, and much of the southern part of the island became an uninhabitable exclusion zone.1

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Chances Peak, in the Soufrière Hills, was, at 3,000 feet (915 metres), the highest point on the island until the mid-1990s, when the first volcanic eruptions in Montserratian history dramatically changed the landscape. In July 1995 a series of eruptions began in which volcanic domes…
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Chances Peak, in the Soufrière Hills, was, at 3,000 feet (915 metres), the highest point on the island until the mid-1990s, when the first volcanic eruptions in Montserratian history dramatically changed the landscape. In July 1995 a series of eruptions began in which volcanic domes…
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