Editing Montserrat (mountain) (section)

==Namesakes==
In 1493, Christopher Columbus named the [[Caribbean]] island of [[Montserrat]] ''Santa Maria de Montserrate'', after the ''Virgin of Montserrat''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=qM5XAAAAYAAJ&q=%22virgin+of+montserrat%22+columbus The Complete Guide to National Symbols and Emblems: Volume 2], page 724</ref> Again, in 1606, the Spanish expedition of [[Luís Vaz de Torres|Luis Vaéz de Torres]] charted [[Torres Strait Islands|Mount Ernest]] island in the [[Torres Strait]] as ''Santa Maria de Montserrate'', due to its relatively high peak.<ref name="Hilder">{{cite book |last1=Hilder |first1=Brett |title=The voyage of Torres : the discovery of the southern coastline of New Guinea and Torres Strait by Captain Luis Baéz de Torres in 1606 |date=1980 |publisher=University of Queensland Press |location=Hong Kong}}</ref>{{rp|83}}

In [[Bogotá]], the [[Monserrate]] mountain (3,152 m high) has a [[funicular]] and [[aerial lift]] similar to those at Montserrat.