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Soufrière Hills, Montserrat Volcano Observatory and Government House, Montserrat — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Montserrat and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets.
Volcano on Montserrat in the Caribbean
An active complex stratovolcano topped by many lava domes on Montserrat, a Caribbean island and overseas territory of the United Kingdom. After lying dormant for a long time, it came to life in 1995 and kept erupting until 2010.
Photo: CommonismNow, Public domain
Volcano observatory located on the Caribbean island of Montserrat
Often shortened to MVO, an observatory watching the Soufrière Hills volcano (SHV) on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, which has been erupting since 1995.
Photo: David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0
Official residence of the governor of Montserrat
The official residence of Montserrat's governor, in Woodlands, in the island's northern safe zone. It was built after the old residence in Plymouth had to be evacuated because of the 1995 eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano.
Photo: Caribbeanbio, CC BY-SA 4.0
A British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, one of the Leeward Islands, the northern part of the West Indies' Lesser Antilles chain. The island measures about 16 km (10 mi) from end to end and 11 km (7 mi) across, and its coast runs for roughly 40 km (25 mi).
Officially Montserrat.
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This guide lists 3: Soufrière Hills, Montserrat Volcano Observatory and Government House, Montserrat.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Montserrat that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
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