Soufrière

American  

[soo-fryer] / suˈfrjɛr /

noun

1. Also La Soufrière. a volcano in the West Indies, on St. Vincent island. 4,048 feet (1,234 meters).

2. Also Grande Soufrière. a volcano in the West Indies, on Guadeloupe. 4,869 feet (1,484 meters).

3. a volcanic peak in the West Indies, on Montserrat island. 3,002 feet (915 meters).

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Soufrière British  

/ sufrjɛr /

noun

1. a volcano in the Caribbean, on N St Vincent: erupted in 1902, killing about 2000 people. Height: 1234 m (4048 ft)

2. a volcano in the Caribbean, on S Montserrat: the highest point on the island; erupted 1997, causing the effective destruction of the capital, Plymouth, and requiring the partial evacuation of the island. Height: 915 m (3002 ft)

3. a volcano in the Caribbean, on Guadeloupe. Height: 1484 m (4869 ft)

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Soufrière

His latest show, during men’s Paris fashion week, was inspired by the 1976 eruption of the La Soufrière volcano in the archipelago of Guadeloupe, where Frederic-Colombo is from.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024

The researchers collected samples of sargassum in Jamaica throughout 2021, which coincided with the April 2021 eruption of La Soufrière on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent.

From Science Daily ● May 27, 2024

Dinner that night was at Orlando’s Restaurant & Bar in Soufrière.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2022

Daniel Defoe, author of ″Robinson Crusoe,″ is the purported writer of an account of an explosive eruption at La Soufrière in 1718, when Indigenous inhabitants effectively controlled the island.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2021

St. George, in the West Indies, erupted in 1810; Etna, the great volcano of Sicily, had an eruption in 1811; and La Soufrière, which broke loose again in your lifetime, boys, erupted in 1812.

From The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis