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Diamond Head appears on an 80-cent air mail stamp issued in 1952 to pay for shipping orchids to the U.S. mainland. [10] Charlton Heston stars in the 1963 film Diamond Head, in a role that Clark Gable was supposed to play. "Diamond Head" an instrumental song by Danny Hamilton recorded in 1964 by The Ventures, was an international hit
Fort Ruger is a fort on the island of Oʻahu that served as the first military reservation in the Territory of Hawaii.Named after Civil War General Thomas H. Ruger and built in and around Diamond Head Crater, the fort was established by the United States for the purpose of defending the harbor of its newly annexed territory. [2]
Location of Oahu. This is a list of properties and districts on the Hawaiian island of Oahu that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Oahu is the only major island in Honolulu County. The location of the city of Honolulu, Oahu is the most populous island in the state.
After hundreds of thousands of years of dormancy, Koʻolau volcano began to erupt again. Some thirty eruptions over the past 500,000 years or so have created many of the landmarks around eastern Oʻahu, such as Diamond Head, Koko Head (Hanauma Bay), Koko Crater, Punchbowl Crater, Tantalus, and Āliapaʻakai, and are collectively known as the Honolulu Volcanic Series, or simply Honolulu ...
Diamond Head: Honolulu: Oahu: State Monument Towering exposed basaltic cinder code, located within the middle of Honolulu's urban core. I'ao Valley: Wailuku: Maui: State Monument Eroded volcanic pinnacles covered in vegetation and surrounded by a lush rain forest. Kanaha Pond: June 1971 Kahului: Maui: State Wildlife Sanctuary A brackish water ...
In the 1800s, Kahala became the primary location for cattle and pig farms on Oahu because it was one of the few completely flat areas on the island. [4] [5] During World War I, forests in Kahala were cleared. [6] After the war concluded, the upper class started to discover Kahala and wanted to gentrify the area.
Area code 808 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Hawaiian Islands, comprising the windward and the leeward islands. The area code also serves Wake Island in the western Pacific Ocean. The code was assigned on August 8, 1957, [citation needed] about two years before the statehood of Hawaii.
Diamond Head Lighthouse is a United States Coast Guard facility located on Diamond Head in Honolulu, on the island of Oʻahu in the State of Hawaiʻi. The lighthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1] The Diamond Head Lighthouse was featured on a United States postage stamp in June 2007. [2]