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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 ...
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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. 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 ...
Mount Pānīʻau is a shield volcano located on the Hawaiian island of Niʻihau. [1] It has an elevation of 1,289 feet (393 meters), thus making it Niʻihau's highest point. In addition to forming the island of Niʻihau, one of its tuff cones created the small island of Lehua , located 0.7 miles (1.1 km) north of Niʻihau, due west of Kauai .
Islands and counties of Hawaii. This is a list of properties and historic districts in Hawaii listed on the National Register of Historic Places. More than 370 listings appear on all but one of Hawaii's main islands (Niihau being the exception) and the Northwestern Islands, and in all of its five counties. Included are houses, schools ...