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In the rainy winter season, high water levels enlarge the freshwater pond to more than 400 acres (1.6 km 2). [7] [8] By spring, water levels begin dropping [9] and by summer, the pond shrinks to half its winter size, leaving a salty residue behind: this accounts for its name, "Kealia", meaning "salt encrusted place"; [7] Coastal salt pans once produced the mineral from seawater. [4]
Kalepolepo Fishpond, known by its older name Koʻieʻi.e.Loko Iʻa, is an ancient Hawaiian fishpond estimated to have been built between 1400 and 1500 AD.. The fishpond is located in Kalepolepo Park in Kihei, Maui.
Several research facilities are located in Kihei, including the main offices for the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, [10] seed operations by Bayer Crop Science, [11] and the Maui Research and Technology Park, which is home to the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC), and the Pacific Disaster Center [12] and ...
[27] In turn, the Legislature of Hawaii created the Kahoʻolawe Island Reserve Commission to exercise policy and management oversight of the Kahoʻolawe Island Reserve. As directed by Title X and in accordance with a required memorandum of understanding between the U.S. Navy and the state of Hawaii, the Navy transferred the title to the land of ...
These huge, abandoned historic homes date back to at least 1850 and are priced as low as $1,000. ... 14 haunting photos of abandoned palaces and castles around the world.
The tower in daylight (1959) The Aloha Tower is a retired lighthouse [3] [4] that is considered one of the landmarks of the state of Hawaii in the United States.Opened on September 11, 1926, at a cost of $160,000 ($2,805,206 in 2024), [5] [6] the Aloha Tower is located at Pier 9 of Honolulu Harbor.
DVRs store images in a variety of proprietary file formats. CCTV security cameras can either store the images on a local hard disk drive, an SD card, or in the cloud. Recordings may be retained for a preset amount of time and then automatically archived, overwritten, or deleted, the period being determined by the organisation that generated them.
Maui Veterans Highway shown just above Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge as it enters Kihei. Maui Veterans Highway or Route 311 (formerly Mokulele Highway) is a highway on the island of Maui in Hawaii that runs south through the isthmus of Maui from the town of Kahului and nearby Kahului Airport, Maui's international airport, to Kihei, a distance of approximately 7 miles (11 km).