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January 17, 1973. Heʻeia Fishpond (Hawaiian: Loko Iʻa O Heʻeia) is an ancient Hawaiian fishpond located at Heʻeia on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. A walled coastal pond (loko iʻa kuapā), it is the only Hawaiian fishpond fully encircled by a wall (kuapā). Constructed sometime between the early 1200s and early 1400s, it was badly damaged ...
On Oʻahu, the private non-profit organization Paepae o Heʻeia ("Threshold of Heʻeia") is rehabilitating the roughly 600-to–800-year-old Heʻeia Fishpond, which is a walled (kuapa-style) enclosure in Heʻeia covering 88 acres (36 ha) of brackish water. [7]
The episode also features Hi'ilei Kawelo, an Indigenous fisherwoman and founder and executive director of Paepae o He'eia in Oahu, Hawaii, who has made it her life's work to restore an ancient ...
Heʻeia is located at (21.426200, -157.812248 Heʻeia is essentially part of Kāneʻohe, and the nearest town to the northwest is ʻĀhuimanu, reached by either Kahekili Highway (State Rte. 83) or Kamehameha Highway (State Rte. 830) along the coast.
ʻUluaki-mata built the Paepae ʻo Teleʻa (or Paepae o Teleʻa, meaning "Tele'a's Mound"), the royal tomb in Lapaha where one tradition states he was buried. During the 1600s, ʻUluaki-mata also commissioned the construction of a huge kalia (double-hulled canoe) named the Lomipeau ("wavecutter"). [ 3 ]
The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel was developed and constructed by Laurance S. Rockefeller. He visited the newly-admitted 50th state in July 1960, and was asked by Governor William F. Quinn to help develop the islands beyond Oahu for tourism. Rockefeller fell in love with Kaunaoa Bay, the hotel's future location, after going for a swim there.
Christopher Hemmeter was born in 1939 in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Los Altos in the San Francisco Bay area. After attending Cornell University and graduating first in his class in 1962 he moved to Hawaii and got a job as a management trainee at the Sheraton Royal Hawaiian. Hemmeter's development career began in the 1960s when he ...
NRHP reference No. 72000417 [1] Added to NRHP. August 7, 1972. The Moana Hotel is a historic hotel building in Honolulu, Hawaii, located at 2365 Kalākaua Avenue in the Waikiki neighborhood. Built in the late 19th century as the first hotel in Waikiki, the Moana opened in 1901. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.