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Nāʻālehu (Hawaiian: Nāʻālehu) is a community in Hawaiʻi County, Hawaii, United States. Nāʻālehu is Hawaiian for "the volcanic ashes". [2] It is one of the southernmost communities with a post office in the 50 states of the United States.
A green turtle basking on the beach Children and honu share the black-sand beach at Punaluʻu The Henry Opukahaia Chapel. e Punaluʻu is the Hōkūloa Church, a Memorial Chapel and graveyard built near the birthplace of Henry ʻŌpūkahaʻia (1792–1818) who inspired the missionary movement that forever changed Hawaii.
Ka Lae is the site of one of the earliest Hawaiian settlements, and it has one of the longest archaeological records on the islands. [2] It is generally thought that this is where the Polynesians first landed because the Big Island is the closest of the Hawaiian Islands to Tahiti, and Ka Lae would be the point of first landfall. [7]
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The district contains much of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, including the volcanoes Kīlauea and Mauna Loa, and Punaluʻu Black Sand Beach, Papakōlea (Green Sand) Beach and Kamilo Beach. [4] To the east of Kaʻū is the Puna District , and to the west is the South Kona District .
In 1940, the school was renamed Kaʻū High and Pāhala Elementary School due to the drop in enrollment at Naalehu, which once had a high school. Kaʻū High and Pāhala Elementary School has one feeder school, Naalehu Elementary School, located in Naalehu, Hawaii, 13 miles (21 km) south. In 1881, the H and G buildings were built on campus.
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Feb. 5—Hawaii Island police have opened a negligent homicide investigation and are searching for the driver of an unknown vehicle involved in a fatal pedestrian hit-and-run collision in Kau ...