Experts Predict Mount St. Helens Eruption

AP ^ | GENE JOHNSON

[Strategerist]

It was named by British explorer George Vancouver to honor his friend, Alleyne Fitzherbert, the British Ambassador to Spain. The title of Fitzherbert was Baron St. Helens.

It's a better name than Mount Fitzherbert, I guess.

[B Knotts]

It's named after a person:

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/description_msh.html

Mount St. Helens was named for British diplomat Alleyne Fitzherbert (1753-1839), whose title was Baron St. Helens. The mountain was named by Commander George Vancouver and the officers of H.M.S.Discovery while they were surveying the northern Pacific coast from 1792 to 1794.

[Semper Paratus]

I'l go out on a limb and predict a Mount Helen Thomas eruption before November 2.

[Quix]

LAVA

flows out of her huge hideous orifi

whenever any open--especially the gaping one just under her nose.

[chs68]

Good Lord!!!!!!

The picture of Mt. St. Helens, as of 9:59:01 PT showed an enormous BUG on it!

Save us all! Eruptions of Huge Insects are coming!!!!

[El Gran Salseron]

"The big difference is people flee hurricanes. Volcanoes seem to attrack hordes of gawkers."

While I agree that volcanoes seem to attract "gawkers," it is also true that people have "hurricane parties" when there is an approaching hurricane. Others of the unlucky ones who refuse to leave usually die.

[kitkat]

COOL! I've been wondering for years about the name, "St. Helens." Leave it to the Freepers to come up with the answer. Thank you.

[kitkat]

Thank you, also, for the information on the name of Mt. St. Helens. It's amazing how much knowledge Freepers have. CBS should have as many talented researchers. (In their pajamas.)

[Hatteras]

Sooooooo? Who's starting the pool? I've got Thursday night (tonight) at 9:15pm eastern. Heh, heh, heh...

[Chad Fairbanks]

St. Helens was named after some British dude...

[Chad Fairbanks]

Wasn't Mount Adams named after our 2nd President? I thought some guy tried to make it a "Presidential Range" but didn't succeed, except for Mount Adams?

[Publius]

It's my understanding that Mount Adams was named by Vancouver for another famous lord. The only volcano he didn't name was Glacier Peak, which is too far into the Cascades to be seen from Puget Sound. The sound, by the way, was named for Peter Puget, who was one of Vancouver's officers.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Adams, whose name survives from an 1839 scheme by Hall J. Kelly to make the Cascades the Presidential Range. He was inspired, according to Cheryl, by Lewis and Clark's naming Mount Jefferson in Oregon after the president who supported their journey across the continent. Kelly, however, intended the name Adams to go to Mount Hood -- he left the mountain in Washington out of the plan entirely. And the person who mapped the mountains mixed up Kelly's names and also put the name Mount Adams 40 miles in the wrong direction -- where there happened to be a mountain ready to bear the name. The Native Americans, of course, knew it was there all along -- they called the mountain Pahtoe. "Mount Adams" stuck firmly after 1853, when the Pacific Railroad Expedition put the name on their map. As for the grand Presidential Range scheme -- well, Cheryl said, "very few of the names took."

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/LivingWith/Historical/volcano_names.html

I remember about Peter Puget - just like Vancouver named Whidbey Island after Master Joseph Whidbey. ;0)