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Enlargeable, detailed map of Oʻahu. Like all other Hawaiian Islands, Oʻahu was formed from the volcanism associated with the Hawaii hotspot; it started to grow from the sea floor 4 million years ago. [19]
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 ...
The tunnels are located on Likelike Highway (Route 63), which connects Kāneʻohe with Honolulu, and are 2775 feet (845.8 m) long westbound and 2813 feet (857.4 m) long eastbound, at [ 1 ] The tunnels are named after former Honolulu Mayor John H. Wilson , [ 2 ] who built the first carriage road over the Nu‘uanu Pali in 1898.
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 ...
Māmala Bay or Mamala Bay is the near-shore area of the Pacific Ocean between Barbers Point and Diamond Head on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. [2] The entrance to Pearl Harbor and Honolulu Harbor are in Māmala Bay. Transair Flight 810 made an emergency ditching in the bay on July 2, 2021. [3] [4]
Ahuimanu is located at on the east side of Oahu (21.443273, -157.840111 Nearby communities include Heeia and Kaneohe to the south along State Route 83 (the Kahekili Highway), and Kahaluu, with which it merges to the north.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.