Theme Week Caribbean – Montserrat
Friday, 27 January 2023 - 12:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Caribbean / Karibik General
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Montserrat Cultural Center overlooking Little Bay © flickr.com – David Stanley/cc-by-2.0
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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 (10 mi) long and 11 km (7 mi) wide, with roughly 40 km (25 mi) of coastline. It is nicknamed “The Emerald Isle of the Caribbean” both for its resemblance to coastal
Ireland and for the
Irish ancestry of many of its inhabitants. Montserrat is the only non-fully sovereign full member of the
Caribbean Community and the
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States .
On 18 July 1995, the previously dormant Soufrière Hills volcano , in the southern part of the island, became active. Eruptions destroyed Montserrat’s Georgian era capital city of Plymouth . Between 1995 and 2000, two-thirds of the island’s population was forced to flee, primarily to the United Kingdom , leaving fewer than 1,200 people on the island in 1997 (rising to nearly 5,000 by 2016). The volcanic activity continues, mostly affecting the vicinity of Plymouth, including its docking facilities, and the eastern side of the island around the former W. H. Bramble Airport , the remnants of which were buried by flows from volcanic activity on 11 February 2010.
Montserrat Cultural Center overlooking Little Bay © flickr.com - David Stanley/cc-by-2.0
An
exclusion zone , encompassing the southern part of the island to as far north as parts of the Belham Valley, was imposed because of the size of the existing volcanic dome and the resulting potential for
pyroclastic activity. Visitors are generally not permitted entry into the exclusion zone, but a view of the destruction of Plymouth can be seen from the top of Garibaldi Hill in Isles Bay. Relatively quiet since early 2010, the volcano continues to be closely monitored by the
Montserrat Volcano Observatory .
In 2015, it was announced that planning would begin on a new town and port at
Little Bay on the northwest coast of the island. While additional plans proceeded, the centre of government and businesses was moved to
Brades . After a number of delays, including
Hurricanes Irma and
Maria in
2017 and the
COVID-19 pandemic beginning in early 2020, in June 2022, ground was broken on the Little Bay Port Development Project, a £28 million project funded by the UK and the
Caribbean Development Bank .
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