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There is a large cave on the northwest side of the island called Kahalauaola (Shark Cave). [2] The United States Census Bureau defines Kaʻula as Census Tract 411 of Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi. The 2000 census showed that the uninhabited island had a land area of 158.2 acres (0.640 km 2; 0.2472 sq mi). [3] Because of erosion, the island is slowly ...
Sea Life Park Hawaii is a marine mammal park, bird sanctuary and aquarium [2] in Waimānalo near Makapuʻu Point, north of Hanauma Bay on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, United States. The park first opened in 1964 and was acquired in 2008 by Palace Entertainment , the U.S. subsidiary of Parques Reunidos [ 3 ] from Dolphin Discovery, which had ...
Although it is the second-smallest of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Necker Island has the second-largest surrounding marine habitat among the islands, totaling 385,000 acres (156,000 ha), with Shark Bay, West Cove, Northwest Cape, and miles of shallow reef to the southeast of the island providing large offshore habitats.
As a boy, Nanaue's mother, Kalei, told him to never eat meat as it would give him a craving for flesh. However, when he turned seven years old, he ate meat and began to crave human flesh. He took up residence in Kaneana cave where he would leave human bodies to rot before eating them, as he found rotted flesh to be tastiest. [2]
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American zoologist G. H. Parker found that the largest suckers on a giant Pacific octopus are about 6.4 cm (2.5 in) and can support 16 kg (35 lb) each. [3] The only other possible contender for the largest species of octopus is the seven-arm octopus ( Haliphron atlanticus ), based on a 61-kilogram (134-pound), incomplete carcass estimated to ...
Francois Peron National Park is a national park on the Peron Peninsula in Western Australia, 726 kilometres (451 mi) north of Perth, and located within the boundary of the Shark Bay World Heritage area.
Klipgat Cave is located in the Walker Bay Nature Reserve, next to De Kelders, the residential shore area of Gansbaai. As one of only three places in South Africa where such old remains have been excavated, Klipgat Cave is an important historical sites in the Western Cape. The reserve and the cave are open to anyone that has a wild card.