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Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa, is a beachside resort hotel at the Ko Olina Resort in Kapolei, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu. It is one of Disney's "stand-alone" hotel situated in a location without any adjacent theme parks, [1] alongside Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort and Disney's Vero Beach Resort. The resort opened to the public on August ...
15-39400. Ko Olina Resort is a 642-acre (2.60 km 2) master-planned vacation and residential community on the leeward coast of Oahu, 17 miles (27 km) west of Honolulu. [ 3 ] Ko Olina has 2 miles (3.2 km) of coastal frontage and includes three natural and four man-made lagoons with white-sand beaches. The master-planned resort community, owned by ...
Designated NHL. December 29, 1962. The ʻIolani Palace (Hawaiian: Hale Aliʻi ʻIolani) was the royal residence of the rulers of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi beginning with Kamehameha III under the Kamehameha Dynasty (1845) and ending with Queen Liliʻuokalani (1893) under the Kalākaua Dynasty, founded by her brother, King David Kalākaua.
In 1934, the Army Air Corps saw the need for another airfield in Hawaii when Luke Field on Ford Island became too congested for both air operations and operation of the Hawaiian Air Depot. 2,225 acres (9.00 km 2) of land and fishponds adjacent to John Rodgers Airport and Fort Kamehameha were purchased by the War Department from the Bishop ...
Ford Island (Hawaiian: Poka ʻAilana) is an islet in the center of Pearl Harbor, Oahu, in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It has been known as Rabbit Island, Marín's Island, and Little Goats Island; its native Hawaiian name is Mokuʻumeʻume. The island had an area of 334 acres (135 ha) when it was surveyed in 1825, which was increased during the ...
Kure Atoll (/ ˈkʊəriː /; Hawaiian: Hōlanikū, lit. 'bringing forth heaven'; Mokupāpapa, 'flat island') [1] or Ocean Island is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean 48 nautical miles (89 km; 55 mi) west-northwest of Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands at 28°25′N 178°20′W. A coral ring 6 miles (9.7 km) across encloses a lagoon ...
Daniel K. Inouye International Airport[ 3 ] (IATA: HNL, ICAO: PHNL, FAA LID: HNL), also known as Honolulu International Airport, is the main and largest airport in Hawaii. [ 4 ] The airport is named after Honolulu native and Medal of Honor recipient Daniel Inouye, who represented Hawaii in the United States Senate from 1963 until his death in 2012.
Trig Island is located at 23'52'N, 166'15', and is about 10 acres of area of which approximately 6 acres (24,000 m 2) have vegetation. [8] The island is about 1,200 feet (370 m) long and between 200 and 300 feet (61 and 91 m) wide. [8] However, the island is known to have weathered considerably between the 1930s and 1960s. [8]