Mount St. Helens

English

Etymology

Named after Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens (i.e., St Helens, Isle of Wight) by his friend, explorer George Vancouver.

Proper noun

Mount St. Helens

  1. 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, 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”‎:
      mount St. Helens is about to Blow up
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