Ariogana

Ariogana is associated with Montserrat, a volcanic island in the northern Lesser Antilles. Its mountains rise steeply above the Caribbean Sea, and its Indigenous name Alliouagana has been rendered as the land of the prickly bush. Columbus named the island Montserrat during his second voyage in 1493. English settlement began in 1632, with Irish migrants among the early colonists and enslaved Africans later forced to work its plantations.