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St Vincent and the Grenadines

A volcanic retrospective: eruptions of the Soufrière, St Vincent

January 20, 2014
A volcanic retrospective: eruptions of the Soufrière, St Vincent
SV Crater

The records, reports and testimonies of past volcanic eruptions and their consequences contain a wealth of information from which we can learn valuable lessons. This, in a nutshell, is the starting point of one strand of the STREVA project, ‘Strengthening Resilience in Volcanic Areas‘, which is a large programme funded by two British funding agencies (NERC and ESRC) and directed from t ...[Read More]

The Botanic Gardens of St Vincent and the Grenadines

January 17, 2014
The Botanic Gardens of St Vincent and the Grenadines
Flower of the Cannonball tree, Couroupita guianensis

The oldest Botanical Gardens in the western hemisphere lie on the outskirts of Kingstown, St Vincent, in the Windward isles of the West Indies – and what a gem they are. As the ironwork above the entrance declares, the gardens were founded in 1765. The original ambition of Robert Melville, the then Governor in Chief of the Windward Isles, was to establish a horticultural research station for ...[Read More]