Pelée,Mount

Pelée,Mount
Pe·lée (pə-lāʹ), Mount
A volcano, about 1,373 m (4,500 ft) high, on northern Martinique in the French West Indies. Its eruption on May 8, 1902, killed some 40,000 people.

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