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Kauaʻi County is the northwesternmost county (excluding the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands) in the state. It occupies the two main islands of Kauaʻi and Niʻihau. Kauai is fourth largest island in the Hawaiian archipelago at 562.3 sq mi (1,456 km 2). With a population of 58,303 , it holds 99.7% of the county's population of 58,463. The ...
The main article for this category is List of islands of Hawaii; ... People by island in Hawaii (7 C) * ... Pages in category "Islands of Hawaii"
Lava erupting from Kīlauea, one of six active volcanoes in the Hawaiian islands. Kīlauea is the most active, erupting nearly continuously from 1983 to 2018. Only the two Hawaiian islands furthest to the southeast have active volcanoes: Haleakalā on Maui, and Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea, Kilauea, and Hualalai, all on the Big Island. The volcanoes on ...
The Hawaiian Islands are about 2,500 miles (4,000 km) from North America and 3,800 miles (6,100 km) from Asia, and it is because of this isolation that the Hawaiian Islands have extraordinary numbers of unique species. [9] Only a species that could fly or swim immense distances could reach the archipelago.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Islands of Hawaii. It includes Islands that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
Molokai (/ ˌ m oʊ l oʊ ˈ k aɪ / [2]) (Hawaiian: Molokaʻi pronounced [ˈmoloˈkɐi, ˈmoloˈkɐʔi] [3]) is the fifth most populated of the eight major islands that make up the Hawaiian Islands archipelago in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Myron "Pinky" Thompson (1924–2001), Native Hawaiian community leader and trustee of Bishop Estate; Suzanne Vares-Lum (born 1967), first female Native Hawaiian General officer, and first Native Hawaiian president of East–West Center; John D. Waiheʻe III (born 1946), politician, fourth governor of Hawaii from 1986 to 1994
The Hawaiian people celebrate traditions and holidays. The most popular form of celebration in Hawaii is the Lūʻau. A lūʻau is a traditional Hawaiian banquet, commonly featuring foods such as poi, poke, lomi-lomi salmon, kalua pig, haupia, and entertainment such as ukulele music and hula. [18] One of the most important holidays is Prince ...