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  2. Niihau - Wikipedia

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    Niʻihau (Hawaiian: [ˈniʔiˈhɐw]), anglicized as Niihau (/ ˈ n iː (i) h aʊ / NEE-(ee-)how), is the westernmost main and seventh largest island in Hawaii. It is 17.5 miles (28.2 km) southwest of Kauaʻi across the Kaulakahi Channel .

  3. Niihau incident - Wikipedia

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    Shigenori Nishikaichi, the pilot who became the center of the Niʻihau incident. On December 7th, 1941, Airman First Class Shigenori Nishikaichi, who had taken part in the second wave of the Pearl Harbor attack, crash-landed his battle-damaged aircraft, an A6M2 Zero "B11-120", from the carrier Hiryu, in a Ni'ihau field near where Hawila Kaleohano, a native Hawaiian, was standing. [5]

  4. List of volcanoes in the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain

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    Smallest inhabited island; [33] Kauaʻi: Kauaʻi: 1.41 MYA [n 3: K-Ar 5.1±0.2 million [3] [34] Oldest and fourth largest of the main islands, and home to Mount Waialeale, one of the wettest areas on Earth in terms of precipitation [35]

  5. Northwestern Hawaiian Islands - Wikipedia

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    The interior of Laysan, showing the hypersaline lake. 156-acre (0.63 km 2) Nihoa is the youngest of the NWHI, and the tallest, with 900-foot (270 m) vertical cliffs. It is the southwestern remnant of the island's former volcanic cone.

  6. List of islands of Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of the islands in Hawaii.The state of Hawaii, consisting of the Hawaiian Islands, has the fourth-longest ocean coastline of the 50 states (after Alaska, Florida, and California) at 750 miles (1,210 km).

  7. Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Hawaiian folk music is a major part of the state's musical heritage. The Hawaiian people have inhabited the islands for centuries and have retained much of their traditional musical knowledge. Their music is largely religious in nature, and includes chanting and dance music.

  8. Puʻuwai, Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Nihoa - Wikipedia

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    Map showing the location of Nihoa in the Hawaiian island chain. 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).