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LA9VDA will be qrv from Montserrat Island in the West Indies. The IOTA reference is NA-103. The qth will be on Gingerbread Hill. Click here to visit Gingerbread Hill homepage.

Here you can see where Montserrat is located in the carribean.

Below is a picture of the qth.

Montserrat, a lush green and mountainous island of approximately 39 square miles, lies in the Eastern Caribbean chain of islands, some 27 miles southwest of Antigua. Known fondly as the Emerald Isle of the Caribbean, this pear shaped island - 12 miles long and 7 miles wide (and now expanding, due to the volcanic activity in the south of the island!) - is situated 1,150 miles north of the equator. It can be located on the map at approximately 16° 45' North and 62° 10' West. The island rises in a series of dramatic mountain slopes to the high point of over 3,000 feet at the Soufriere Hills in the Exclusion Zone. The islands of Redonda, Nevis and St. Kitts in the west and north respectively, Guadeloupe to the south and Antigua to the northeast can be seen from the various points on the island.


Visit Montserrat.

More info about the volcanic activity can be found on the Montserrat Volcano Observatory website.


2 pictures from the volcano eruption in 1996.