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Before British colonisation of New Zealand, the Indigenous architecture of Māori was an 'elaborate tradition of timber architecture'. [1] Māori constructed rectangular buildings (whare) with a 'small door, an extension of the roof and walls to form a porch, and an interior with hearths along the centre and sleeping places along the walls' for protection against the cold.
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. There are 169 properties and districts on the island, including 16 National Historic Landmarks. Five formerly listed sites were demolished and have been removed from the Register.
In addition, or perhaps overlapping, are five U.S. National Park Service areas of historic orientation in Hawaii. [5] Of these, the USS Arizona Memorial, Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park, Kalaupapa National Historical Park, and Puukohola Heiau National Historic Site are also National Historic Landmarks and are listed above.
This is a list of census-designated places in Hawaii. There are no separately incorporated cities in the entire state; Honolulu County is both a city and county. There are 151 census-designated places.
The style gained new popularity and were employed in new commercial and residential developments in West Oahu especially in the new city of Kapolei. Hawaiian plantation architecture became a signature style for Hawaiʻi and is the most recognizable Hawaiian style being exported to other parts of the globe.
This is a list of properties and districts on the island of Hawaiʻi in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The island is coterminous with Hawaiʻi County, the state's only county that covers exactly one island.
Nearly one-third of Oahu’s beaches are hardened, according to a 2020 study by the Climate Resilience Collaborative. Using computer models, the researchers predicted that by 2050, nearly 40% of ...
The Polynesian Triangle is a geographical region of the Pacific Ocean with Hawaii (Hawaiʻi) (1), New Zealand (Aotearoa) (2) and Easter Island (Rapa Nui) (3) at its corners, but excluding Fiji on its western side. At the center is Tahiti (5), with Samoa (4) to the west.