Brades

Brades Brades Estate
— City —

Location of Brades within Montserrat
Coordinates:
Country	United Kingdom
Overseas territory	Montserrat
Population
• Total	ca 1,000
Time zone	Atlantic (UTC-4)

Brades (or Brades Estate; approx. pop. 1,000) is a village and de facto capital of the Caribbean island of Montserrat since 1998.^[1] Brades is located in the Carr's Bay/Little Bay vicinity at the northwest end of Montserrat. The official capital Plymouth in the south of the island has been abandoned since 1997 due to the eruption of Soufriere Hills volcano, which buried Plymouth. Interim government buildings have since been built at Brades.

Several names have been suggested for the new capital, which is now being constructed in the Little Bay area. They include Port Diana, in memory of Princess Diana,^[2] and St. Patrick's, to commemorate the March 17th uprising and to attract Irish-American tourists.

References

^ Leonard, T. M. (2005). Encyclopedia of the Developing World. Routledge. pp.1083. ISBN 978-1579583880
^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/politics97/diana/monty.html

Capitals of British administrative divisions

British Overseas Territories	Crown Dependencies	Constituent countries

The Valley, Anguilla Hamilton, Bermuda Rothera, British Antarctic Territory Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory Road Town, British Virgin Islands George Town, Cayman Islands Stanley, Falkland Islands Gibraltar, Gibraltar Plymouth (de jure), Brades (de facto), Montserrat Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands Jamestown, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Grytviken (de jure), King Edward Point (de facto), Sth Georgia & Sth Sandwich Islands Episkopi Cantonment, Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia Cockburn Town, Turks and Caicos Islands	Saint Helier, Jersey Saint Peter Port, Guernsey Douglas, Isle of Man	London, England and the United Kingdom Edinburgh, Scotland Cardiff, Wales Belfast, Northern Ireland