Montserrat Green

 Saint Patrick’s Day is a major (and official) holiday on Montserrat.

Monserrat is a small island in the Caribbean.

It is 10 miles long and 7 miles wide.

It is a British Overseas Territory.

The official language is English.

It was founded in 1628 and had a large Irish population who used the Irish Language into the 20^th Century.

Half of the Island has been under an Exclusion Zone since the 1997 Soufrière Hills Volcano Eruption covered the southern part of the island, including the island’s Capital of Plymouth and the only airport of Blackborne.

2/3 of the island’s population fled to the United Kingdom leaving only a current population of 4,390.

The northern part of the island continues to be unaffected by the Volcano and is lush and green.

A new Airport (Osborne) and a new Capital (Little Bay) was opened in the north.

(Saint Patrick’s Day on Montserrat.)

Montserrat is known as the "The Emerald Isle of The Caribbean” due to it’s lush greenery and all the Irish influence.