Capital of Montserrat

[Jesper Norgaard Welen]

Some time ago I investigated what might be the capital of Montserrat
when the former capital Plymouth was abandoned because of heavy volcanic
activity in 1995 and onwards (now it is a bit more quiet). I came to the
conclusion that it was probably Brades, from having several addresses of
government there. 

Recently I checked wikipedia and the CIA factbook and it confirms it was
changed from Plymouth to Brades. In the tz database we don't have a big
problem from the fortunate timezone naming America/Montserrat instead of
America/Olveston. However, there are two comments that state it is
Olveston in the tz entry (see below). In the web I could only find an
old reference from 1996 talking about a government office in Olveston,
other references say Brades or Brades Estate.

# Montserrat
# From Paul Eggert (1997-08-31):
# Recent volcanic eruptions have forced evacuation of Plymouth, the
capital.
# Luckily, Olveston, the current de facto capital, has the same
longitude.
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
Zone America/Montserrat	-4:08:52 -	LMT	1911 Jul 1 0:01   #
Olveston
			-4:00	-	AST

http://www.gis.gov.ms/

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/mh.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montserrat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brades%2C_Montserrat


Unfortunately that will mean we have to recalculate LMT since it is (as
would be expected) not very close to the turmoil of Plymouth. The last
page has a nice little map to show where Brades is located in the north
of Montserrat. As usual tz database prefers largest city, but I don't
know if that differs from Brades.

- Jesper

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