"Dès 1635, les premiers colons savaient qu'ils étaient à proximité
d'un volcan, appellée Montagne de Feu par les Caraïbes. La montagne
avait été rebaptisée Montagne Pelée certainement du à sa végétation
détruite par une faible éruption en 1630."
From
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jacobsj/fr/madinina/pelee.htm
Peter S.
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002" <orc@o...> wrote:
> 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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> > >
> > >