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The Indira Point lighthouse was commissioned into service on 30 April 1972. [8] [9]Located 500 kilometres north of the epicenter of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, the southernmost tip subsided 4.25 metres (13.9 ft) after the earthquake, and many of the inhabitants went missing in the tsunami that followed. [10]
It is located 23 mi (20 nmi; 37 km) west-southwest of Kawaihoa Point on Niʻihau, and about 150 nmi (173 mi; 278 km) west of Honolulu. The island is the top of a volcanic tuff cone that rests on top of a larger, submerged shield volcano. At its highest point, the island reaches a height of 548 ft (167 m). [1]
The population was evacuated, and there were no casualties. Indira Point (6°45’10″N and 93°49’36″E), the southernmost point of the Great Nicobar Island and India itself, subsided 4.25 metres (13.9 ft) in the tsunami and its lighthouse was damaged. [14]
This is a list of lighthouses in Hawaii. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Fifteen lighthouses in Hawaii are associated with the U.S. Coast Guard. [ 3 ] Including minor lights, there are 43 lights in total.
Hawaii Island has the second-highest point among the world's islands. [53] On the volcanoes' flanks, slope instability has generated damaging earthquakes and related tsunamis, particularly in 1868 and 1975. [54] Catastrophic debris avalanches on the ocean island volcanoes' submerged flanks have created steep cliffs. [55] [56]
Haleʻiwa is located at 21°35'24" North, 158°6'50" West (21.590050, -158.113928), [3] southwest along Kamehameha Highway (State route 83) from Pūpūkea.At Haleʻiwa, Kamehameha Highway becomes state route 99 (at the traffic circle known as "Weed Circle"), which runs eastward up across the Oʻahu central plateau to Wahiawā.
Maui Nui is a modern geologists' name given to a prehistoric Hawaiian island and the corresponding modern biogeographic region. Maui Nui is composed of four modern islands: Maui , Molokaʻi , Lānaʻi , and Kahoʻolawe .
Mākaha was the site of the Mākaha International Surfing Championships 1954–1971. During the '60s, Fred Hemmings won the championship four times. Surfing is sometimes recognized as starting in Mākaha in the early 1950s, even though it has most likely been utilized as a surfing spot for Native Hawaiians for hundreds of years.