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The water depth is 20–50 feet (6–15 m) in the majority of the allowed dive spots. Because Molokini attracts many boats, the Hawaii State Division of Boating and Recreation established mooring buoys and "Day Use Mooring Rules" for Molokini to protect against damage from dropped anchors.
Location of Maui County within the U.S. state of Hawaii. Maui Nui is a modern geologists' name given to a prehistoric Hawaiian island and the corresponding modern biogeographic region.
The depth of the channel reaches 108 feet (33 m), and its width is 8.8 miles (14.2 km). ʻAuʻau channel is a whale-watching center in the Hawaiian Islands. Humpback whales migrate approximately 3,500 miles (5,600 km) from Alaskan waters each autumn and spend the northern hemisphere winter months in the protected waters of the channel.
Aerial view of Kaho‘olawe, Molokini, and the Makena side of Maui. In 1976, a group called the Protect Kahoʻolawe ʻOhana (PKO) filed suit in U.S. Federal Court to stop the Navy's use of Kahoʻolawe for bombardment training, to require compliance with a number of new environmental laws and to ensure protection of cultural resources on the island.
The Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiian: Mokupuni Hawaiʻi) are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll.
Across the archipelago are around 130 small rocks and islets, such as Molokini, which are made up of either volcanic or marine sedimentary rock. [ 46 ] Hawaiʻi's tallest mountain Mauna Kea is 13,796 ft (4,205 m) above mean sea level; [ 47 ] it is taller than Mount Everest if measured from the base of the mountain, which lies on the floor of ...
Portulaca molokiniensis is a rare endemic to the Hawaiian islands where it known to grow in loose volcanic scree on steep slopes and in sand near the seaside on the arid islets of Molokini and Pu'ukoa'e and at Kanhio Bay on Kaho'olawe off the west coast of Maui. Though many think of the Hawaiian islands as lush and moist, the collection sites ...
Olokui is the second highest peak on the island of Molokai, surpassed by only Kamakou.At 4,602 feet (1,403 m), it marks the divide between the Pelekunu and Wailau valleys.