La Grande Soufrière (French pronunciation: [la ɡʁɑ̃d sufʁijɛʁ]; English: "big sulfur outlet"), or simply Soufrière (Antillean Creole: Soufwiyè), is an active stratovolcano on the French island of Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe.

[4] On February 8, 1843, an eruption of La Grande Soufrière caused by an earthquake killed over 5,000 people.

[5] Significant seismic activity in 1976 led to a mass evacuation of the island's 72,000 residents.

[2] There was a bitter, and well-publicized, controversy between scientists Claude Allègre and Haroun Tazieff on whether evacuation should occur.

[2] While the island was deserted, the German filmmaker Werner Herzog traveled to the abandoned town of Basse-Terre to find a peasant who had refused to leave his home on the slopes of the volcano.