Mount Pelee is located in the island of Martinique in French west Indies.
Mount Pelee is 4,583 feet (1,397meters) above sea level.
Mount Pelee is a active volcano and the volcano erupted violently in 1902, after lying dormant since 1851.
Mount Pelee last erupted in 1932.
An avalanche of boiling hot lava and clouds of steaming hot gas rushed down Mount Pelee.
A killing about 38,000 people destroying the city of St. Pierre.