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Montserrat
Lush mountain vegetation on Montserrat, Lesser Antilles.
Christopher Columbus sighted the island of Montserrat in November 1493 during his second voyage to the Americas. He named the island after the abbey of Montserrat located in Catalonia, Spain.1