Soufriere Blow
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ABOUT THE PROJECT

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Design and development by flocc

Exploring the eruptions and legacies of La Soufriere

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1902
“When the volcano erupted…she was hiding under a copper.”

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Eruption
1902
"There is a village by Tourama…there was a factory and the owner did not want to give anybody any shelter."

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Eruption
1902
"the whole country was in entire darkness."

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Eruption
1979
"it was like when you burn tyres...you see the black smoke going up in the air."

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1979
"When people smelt the sulphur they realised something was wrong."

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1979
"The ash was up in the air and falling down like rain."

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1902
"...as they reached the top of the hill they saw the lake steaming..."

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1979
“…when the thunder rolled, she saw the fire.”

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Eruption
1979
"It was a frightful experience"

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Eruption
1902

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Eruption
1979

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1902
“They were seeing this white thing on the plants…but nobody knew exactly what it was…”

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Eruption
1979

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1979
La Soufriere Eruption April 17, 1979: Courtesy Dick Fiske Collection

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Eruption
1979
“Things started to drop on our skin, and it was stinging us…”

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La Soufriere timeline

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Land
Many of the steep-sided cliffs on the northern St.Vincent Shoreline, are piled up from past eruptions.

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Land

"The ash was like manure"

St. Vincent residents found that following an eruption, there was an increase in plant growth.

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Land
1979
"The government sent boats and vehicles. People had come on the boat with provisions and clothes and their food. But when the volcano blow, they had to throw out the food and dashed off with the boat."

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Eruption
1902
1902 House

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1979
Thousands flee new eruption

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Vincentians need food and clothing

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Evacuations

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Camden Park

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Settlement

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Eruption
"The closer to the land you are the more cultured you are."

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Knowledge

"I was born there, on the rim of a volcano"

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"...a landscape and the island's autobiography, its physical signature."

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"...we were told things about the volcano being a fire-god..."

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"They say there was a mermaid who lived in the lake at the top of the mountain..."

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1902

"The River is reported to be simple a mass of steaming lava."

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Eruption

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“The mountains are a storybook landscape"

– Kingstown resident, 2017

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Inside La Sourfriere

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“Three towering ‘volcanic centres’ – two ancient and dormant, the third the present roarer – define the discontinuous series of mountains that make up this backbone, at once a landscape and the island’s autobiography, its physical signature.”
– Philip Nanton, The Roaring (foreword)

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Eruption
1979

Soufriere 1979

A poem by Shake Keane

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Land

“…the ash was like manure”

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“Where the sea and the land meet, begin there… ” – Philip Nanton, Punctuation Marks

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Monitoring the Volcano

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