Capital of Montserrat
Jesper Norgaard Welen
jnorgard at prodigy.net.mx
Sat Feb 25 05:54:39 UTC 2006
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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