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A traditional Hawaiian altar on the Saddle Road near the Mauna Kea access road Just below the support complex, a Visitor Information Station at 19°45′33″N 155°27′22″W / 19.75917°N 155.45611°W / 19.75917; -155.45611 ( Onizuka Visitor Information Station ) , has its own parking lot for
In Honolulu's Chinatown, street signs are different from usual signs; they are red-framed and written in English and Chinese. The Chinatown-Downtown Honolulu Neighborhood Board is an elected nine-member volunteer organization dedicated to improving the governance of this specially designated region.
A "Save Mauna Kea" movement was inspired by the proliferation of telescopes, with opposition believing development of the mountain to be sacrilegious. [32] Native Hawaiian non-profit groups, such as Kahea, whose goals are the protection of cultural heritage and the environment, oppose development on Mauna Kea as a sacred space to the Hawaiian ...
Jan. 23—The Office of Hawaiian Affairs said Monday that it is asking a court to repeal the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority. OHA announced it filed a lawsuit in Oahu Circuit Court ...
Subaru Telescope (すばる望遠鏡, Subaru Bōenkyō) is the 8.2-metre (320 in) telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii. It is named after the open star cluster known in English as the Pleiades.
In July 2009, Mauna Kea was selected. [70] Once TMT selected Mauna Kea, the project began a regulatory and community process for approval. [71] Mauna Kea is ranked as one of the best sites on Earth for telescope viewing and is home to 13 other telescopes built at the summit of the mountain, within the Mauna Kea Observatories grounds. [72]
HANA, Hawaii - A small and "uncommon" earthquake shook the island of Maui just before 9 p.m. Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Service. It was measured at a magnitude 3.7, centered on the ...
The W. M. Keck Observatory is an astronomical observatory with two telescopes at an elevation of 4,145 meters (13,600 ft) near the summit of Mauna Kea in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Both telescopes have 10 m (33 ft) aperture primary mirrors, and, when completed in 1993 (Keck I) and 1996 (Keck II), they were the largest optical reflecting ...