Mount Scenery

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View from Mount Scenery on Windward Side

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The Mount Scenery on the Caribbean island of Saba is the highest point of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The stratovolcano reaches a height of 877 meters and dominates so that the Vaalserberg, the highest point in the Netherlands on the European mainland to almost 555 meters. Since the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on 10 October 2010 and the inclusion of Sheba as a " special municipality " in the Netherlands of Mount Scenery is also considered the highest mountain in the Netherlands.

The last eruption in 1640, there was heavy explosions and pyroclastic flows, even today the Mount Scenery is classified as hazardous.

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