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The island's private ownership passed on to her descendants, the Robinsons. During World War II , the island was the site of the Niʻihau incident , in which, following the attack on Pearl Harbor , a Japanese navy fighter pilot crashed on the island and received help from the island's residents of Japanese descent.
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Hawaii is divided into five counties: Hawaiʻi, Honolulu, Kalawao, Kauaʻi, and Maui. Each island is included in the boundaries and under the administration of one of these counties. Honolulu County, despite being centralized, administers the outlying Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Kalawao (the smallest county in the United States in terms of ...
Puʻuwai (literally, "heart" in Hawaiian, [1] pronounced [puʔuˈvɐj]) is an unincorporated community in Kauai County, Hawaii, United States, [2] and the only settlement on the island of Niʻihau. It is at the western coast of the small island, and Native Hawaiians who live in this village speak the Niihau dialect of the Hawaiian language. The ...
Nihoa (/ n iː ˈ h oʊ. ə /; Hawaiian: Nīhoa [niːˈhowə] or Hawaiian: Nihoa), also known as Bird Island or Moku Manu, is the tallest of ten islands and atolls in the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI). The island is located at the southern end of the NWHI chain, 296 km (160 nmi) southeast of Necker Island.
Halulu Lake is a lake in the south central region of the island of Niʻihau (the smallest inhabited island in the chain). [2] It is the largest (non-intermittent) natural lake in the Hawaiian Islands and ranks third in size after Hālaliʻi Lake (also on Niʻihau) and Keālia Pond (on Maui) which are intermittent bodies of water.