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The island is about 6 million years old, making it geologically older than the 5.8-million-year-old neighboring island of Kauaʻi to the northeast. [7] Niʻihau is the remnant of the southwestern slope of what was once a much larger volcano.
Aerial view of Kauai Na Pali Coast State Park Kalalau Beach. The five-million-year-old island, the oldest of the main islands (Niʻihau is older), was formed volcanically as the Pacific Plate passed over the Hawaii hotspot. [27] It consists of an eroded shield volcano with a 9.3–12.4 mi (15.0–20.0 km) diameter summit caldera and two ...
Kure is one of the less biodiverse islands of the NWHI. 1909 map of the Hawaiian Islands Reservation. Other islands or reefs were previously mapped as part of this chain but are now considered to be either phantom islands or misidentifications of existing islands. The following reefs continued to appear on maps as late as 1934: [3]
Kōloa is located on the southern side of the island of Kauai at (21.907137, -159.465877 It is bordered to the northwest by Omao and to the south by Poipu.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.2 square miles (3.2 km 2), all of it recorded as land.
English: The maps use data from nationalatlas.gov, specifically countyp020.tar.gz on the Raw Data Download page. The maps also use state outline data from statesp020.tar.gz . The Florida maps use hydrogm020.tar.gz to display Lake Okeechobee.
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.
Wailua is located at (22.058631, -159.341761), [4] on the east side of the island of Kauai. It is bordered to the north by Kapaa, to the west by the Wailua Homesteads CDP, to the south by the Wailua River, and to the east by the Pacific Ocean.
Colored locator map for the island of Kauai: Date: 30 July 2007: Source: