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View from the top of Diamond Head, 2015. Diamond Head is a volcanic tuff cone on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu.It is known to Hawaiians as Lēʻahi (pronounced [leːˈʔɐhi]), which is most likely derived from lae (browridge, promontory) plus ʻahi (tuna) because the shape of the ridgeline resembles the shape of a tuna's dorsal fin. [3]
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Diamond Head is a 1,700-metre (5,600 ft) (rim-to-rim) wide [40] typical tuff cone with a wide and not overly deep crater that forms a prominent promontory east of Honolulu. [38] Inland from Diamond Head lie the Kaimukī and Mauʻumae cones, [51] which appear to come from a shared fissure. [38]
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Fifty years later, Congress authorized a small appropriation to establish a national cemetery in Honolulu with two provisions: that the location be acceptable to the War Department, and that the site would be donated rather than purchased. In 1943, the governor of Hawaii offered the Punchbowl for a national cemetery. The $50,000 appropriation ...
HONOLULU, Hawaii - The eruption of one of the world’s most active volcanoes, continues to captivate onlookers on Hawaii’s Big Island, drawing thousands of visitors. The uptick in activity ...
After hundreds of thousands of years of dormancy, Koʻolau volcano began to erupt again. Some thirty eruptions over the past 500,000 years or so have created many of the landmarks around eastern Oʻahu, such as Diamond Head, Koko Head (Hanauma Bay), Koko Crater, Punchbowl Crater, Tantalus, and Āliapaʻakai, and are collectively known as the Honolulu Volcanic Series, or simply Honolulu ...
A.D. 79: Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Mount Vesuvius has erupted eight times in the last 17,000 years, most recently in 1944, but the big one was in A.D. 17. One of the most violent eruptions in history ...