this is what i was thinking too
but it would be fractured french
since mont is masculine & pelee feminine
if it really were french tho
or perhaps a permissive local patois
it might signify something more like
bald woman mountain
its equally odd alternative name
montagne pele
with the gender of both the mountain & the skinhead reversed
might thus signify
bald man mountain
a most peculiar cross dressing situation going on here
but for such reason
the white peak mont blanc might as easily be mont blanche
etc
however & i think fortunately
pele or pelee is also said to have meant fire mountain in carib
an unverifiable but perhaps more likely source
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> "Mont Pelée" means peeled mount in French. Could that be
the equivalent of what
> we might call "Bald Mountain" in English. Maybe. Maybe not.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "acroorca2002" <orc@o...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 1:22 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: erupting vertex with molten vortex
found
>
>
> > ahh wonderful
> > then you visited the vortex vertex & the goddess at home
> > even as she herself was actively visiting all around there
> >
> > & no surprise to see her jumping around thruout the
> > neighborhood like this
> > & in the many volcanic formations named for her all around
> > hawaii & in the pacific beyond
> > nor any more of a surprise really to see that her name has
> > wound up on lunar & martian volcanoes too etc etc
> >
> > but i am amazed & delighted to find this multidimensional
lady
> > showing up as if at will
> > in martinique at volcanic mont pelee
> > aka montagne pele
> > as well as at another volcanic mt pele in cameroon
> > both likely named by unrelated people
> > unaware of her hawaiian name & home
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "adamnvillani"
> > <avillani@u...> wrote:
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "m donner"
> > <maxivan82@h...>
> > > wrote:
> > > > & it may not even be a real boundary point for that matter
> > > > since it involves only the thin red sort of line we just met
at
> > > mauna loa
> > > > trying to stretch adams thick red molten tripoint into a
> > quadripoint
> > > > & i still havent figured out what such a line is supposed to
> > > separate from what
> > >
> > > Yeah, that is a pretty mysterious red line. On the 1:25,000
map
> > > (found on Topozone), it's marked as a "Grant Boundary," so
I
> > assume
> > > that means it's an old property line that predates the
National
> > Park.
> > > I visited Hawaii Volcanoes NP back in 1996 on a geology
class
> > field
> > > trip and can assure that while Halema'uma'u may not
exactly
> > be a lake
> > > of molten lava at the moment, it's definitely an active vent. At
the
> > > time I visited the active (as in lava come up out of the
ground
> > as I
> > > watched it) area was the Pu'u O'o eruption between the
east rift
> > zone
> > > of Kilauea and the coast, and from what I hear it's still
going.
> > You
> > > can hike along the Kilauea and Kilauea Iki calderas, but
you
> > can only
> > > go up to the edges of Halema'uma'u and Mauna Ulu.
> > >
> > > Adam
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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