Mount Scenery

Mount Scenery
	View of Mount Scenery from the sea
height	877 m
location	Saba Island , Netherlands
Coordinates	17 ° 38 '8 " N , 63 ° 14' 14" W Coordinates: 17 ° 38 '8 " N , 63 ° 14' 14" W.
Type	Stratovolcano
Last eruption	1640
particularities	highest elevation in the Kingdom of the Netherlands
	View from Mount Scenery on Windwardside

The Mount Scenery on the Caribbean island of Saba is the highest elevation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands . The stratovolcano reaches a height of 877 meters and towers over the Vaalserberg , the highest point of the Netherlands on the European mainland, by almost 555 meters. Since the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on October 10, 2010 and the incorporation of Saba as a “ special municipality ” in the Netherlands, Mount Scenery is also considered the highest mountain in the Netherlands.

The last eruption in 1640 caused severe explosions and pyroclastic currents ; Even today the Mount Scenery is classified as a danger.

literature

M. John Roobol, Alan L. Smith: Volcanology of Saba and St. Eustatius, Northern Lesser Antilles . Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam 2004, ISBN 90-6984-384-6 (English, available online at www.spaw-palisting.org [PDF; 7.3 MB ]).

Web links

Commons : Mount Scenery - collection of images, videos and audio files

Saba in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English).

Individual evidence

↑ The Netherlands Antilles dissolved. In: eurotopics . Federal Agency for Civic Education , October 11, 2010, archived from the original on July 20, 2011 ; accessed on October 17, 2017 .

[1] The Netherlands Antilles dissolved. In: eurotopics . Federal Agency for Civic Education , October 11, 2010, archived from the original on July 20, 2011 ; accessed on October 17, 2017 .