Mount St. Helens
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named after Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens (i.e., St Helens, Isle of Wight) by his friend, explorer George Vancouver.
Proper noun
[edit]- A stratovolcano in the US state of Washington.
- 1874, John Francis Campbell, “The Terminus”, in My Circular Notes:
- Mount St. Helens is visible in the clear weather, distant seventy-five miles.
- 1980, Lee Fox, “A journey from bad to worse”, in The Spokesman-Review[1], page V6:
- Bart ... was looking at Mount St. Helens. "When the mountain blew," he said later, "it felt like the end of the world."
- 2018, Bill Wurtz (lyrics and music), “Mount St. Helens is about to Blow Up”[2]:
- mount St. Helens is about to Blow up