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A second wave arrived by sea-canoe from Tahiti around 800–1000 C.E. [9] [10] Many Hawaiian traditions and belief structures derive from the culture that arrived with these Tahitians. [9] In 1778, Captain James Cook arrived at Waimea, Kauai and became the first recorded contact between any European and the indigenous people of the Hawaiian ...
In 2024, while it still voted majority Democratic, Kauai County cast the highest percentage of its vote for the Republican candidate out of any county in the state, a record that has generally been held by Honolulu County. This was the first time since 1960 that the county held this distinction.
Sometimes, Hawaiian related articles may have titles that are not using the regional spelling and orthography. If consensus holds for spelling in the title that ignores the diacritic marks, create a redirect that does. All titles with the native orthography, in turn should have a redirect page for the normal English spelling.
In addition, the letters F, G, S, Y, and Z were used to spell foreign words. In 1826, the developers voted to eliminate some of the letters which represented functionally redundant interchangeable letters, enabling the Hawaiian alphabet to approach the ideal state of one-symbol-one-sound, and thereby optimizing the ease with which people could ...
The state of Hawaii, consisting of the Hawaiian Islands, has the fourth-longest ocean coastline of the 50 states (after Alaska, Florida, and California) at 750 miles (1,210 km). It is the only state that consists entirely of islands, with 6,422.62 sq mi (16,634.5 km 2 ) of land.
Waimea (literally, "red water" in Hawaiian [2]) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi, United States.Situated on the southwest coast of the island of Kauai, the population was 2,057 at the 2020 census. [3]
Honolulu Advertiser (June 28, 2004): "Hawaiian spellings catch on, but slowly". (On slow progress in using proper Hawaiian spellings instead of makeshift English spelling.) Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library: Browser information for viewing Hawaiian characters (Archived 2006-12-05 at the Wayback Machine)
Nā Pali Coast State Park is a 6,175-acre (2,499 ha) state park in the U.S. state of Hawaii, located in the center of the rugged 16-mile (26 km) northwest side of Kauaʻi, the second-oldest inhabited Hawaiian island. The Nā Pali coast itself extends southwest from Keʻe Beach all the way to Polihale State Park.