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Old 02-10-2007, 04:33 PM canarymoon is offline     #2 (permalink)
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Mount Pelee is on the North end of the island.
Here's some information about the volcano from the same website:

Discover mount Pelee, one of the deadliest volcano ever...

Mount Pelee towers above the island of Martinique, in the West Indies. Since 1902, it is one of the most famous volcanoes on Earth ; its eruption led to the destruction of the entire city of Saint-Pierre, with its 28,000 inhabitants.

The study of the causes of the disaster marks the begining of modern volcanology with the definition and the analysis of the deadliest volcanic hazard : the pyroclastic flows and surges, also called nuees ardentes (French term meaning glowing avalanches). A specific eruption style has also been defined: The Pelean eruption style.