Plymouth

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Plymouth is the former capital of Montserrat that was destroyed and permanently evacuated following devastating volcanic eruptions in the 1990s.

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Plymouth canonical 10

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf former capital city
ghost town
settlement
adjacentTo Soufrière Hills
surface form: Soufrière Hills volcano
capitalOf Montserrat
surface form: Montserrat (de jure)
climate tropical
continent North America
country Montserrat
coveredBy pyroclastic flows
volcanic ash
destroyedBy Soufrière Hills
surface form: Soufrière Hills volcano eruptions
evacuatedIn 1995
formerCapitalOf Montserrat
functionBeforeDestruction administrative center of Montserrat
commercial center of Montserrat
population center of Montserrat
governedBy United Kingdom
hasLegalStatus de jure capital of Montserrat
language English
largelyDestroyedIn 1997
legalNote only ghost town that is the de jure capital of a political territory
locatedIn Caribbean
Lesser Antilles
exclusion zone of Montserrat
locatedOn British Overseas Territory of Montserrat
surface form: island of Montserrat
namedAfter Plymouth, England
naturalHazard ashfall
lahars
volcanic activity
partOf British Overseas Territory of Montserrat
permanentlyEvacuated 1990s
primaryReligionBeforeEvacuation Christianity
reasonForAbandonment volcanic eruption
region Leeward Islands
replacedAsDeFactoCapitalBy Brades
replacedAsSeatOfGovernmentBy Brades
status abandoned
uninhabited
timeZone Atlantic Time Zone
surface form: Atlantic Standard Time
transportInfrastructureBeforeDestruction port
roads

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