Saba

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Space Shuttle photo STS039-0083-0098 looking southwest across the northern part of the lesser Antilles volcanic arc.

Saba is a stratovolcano with a single historic eruption shortly before 1636 AD. This historic eruption was from a flank vent and produced pyroclastic flows.

Sources of Information:

Simkin, T., and Siebert, L., 1994, Volcanoes of the World: Geoscience Press, Tucson, Arizona, 349 p.