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Mount St. Helens is a semi-active volcano that erupted in 1980. Its name comes from Alleyne Fitzherbert, 1st Baron St. Helens, a British diplomat and friend of George Vancouver, the explorer who made the first recorded sighting of the mountain and named it.

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