Montserrat

The highest accessible viewpoint in Montserrat's inhabited northern zone, offering sweeping panoramas of the safe north, the devastated exclusion zone and, on clear days, the active Soufrière Hills Volcano. The clearest visual argument for the island's division into two worlds.

A small bay and settlement on Montserrat's north-west coast, now the focal point of the island's reconstruction and intended future capital. Home to the new port, government buildings and a growing community in an island defined by catastrophe and recovery.

The scientific monitoring station established in the aftermath of the 1995 Soufrière Hills eruption. Positioned at the edge of the exclusion zone, it tracks the volcano's activity and serves as the primary public interpreter of the ongoing risk for Montserrat's remaining population.

Montserrat's former capital, abandoned and partially buried by the 1995 Soufrière Hills eruption. A ghost city of ash-frozen streets that serves as the Caribbean's starkest monument to volcanic catastrophe.

Montserrat's principal beach on the sheltered west coast, a long dark-sand shore with calm Caribbean waters. One of the few places on the island where the volcanic catastrophe feels distant and the Caribbean leisure identity is still intact.

An active stratovolcano that erupted catastrophically in 1995, destroying two-thirds of Montserrat and burying its capital. The ongoing eruption has been monitored continuously since its first explosion and remains the defining event in modern Montserratese history.