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The United States Census Bureau designates this area, excluding Midway Atoll, as Census Tract 114.98 of Honolulu County. The total land area of these islands is 3.1075 square miles (8.048 km²). With the exception of Nihoa, all these islands lie north of the Tropic of Cancer, making them the only islands in Hawaii situated outside the tropics.
Lihue Airport (IATA: LIH, ICAO: PHLI, FAA LID: LIH) is a state-owned public-use airport located in the Līhuʻe CDP on the southeast coast of the island of Kauaʻi in Kauai County, Hawaiʻi, United States, two nautical miles east of the center of the CDP. [1] [3] The airport does not serve as a hub for any airline carrier.
This is a list of airports in Hawaii (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Lualualei, Hawaii is the largest coastal valley on the leeward side of Oʻahu in Hawaiʻi. It is located on the west side of the Waianae Range . Navy Lualualei VLF Transmitter Antennas near Lualualei, Oahu, Hawaii
Route 570 is a one-mile (1.6 km) road that stretches from Route 56 in Lihue to Lihue Airport on the island of Kauai.Before the construction of Route 51 in the 1980s, the road provided primary access to Lihue Airport with the north and eastern shores of the Kauai.
The airport has had several names over its lifetime. At the time of its opening in 1970, it was named the Ke-āhole Airport, after its geographical location, Keāhole Point, itself named after the ʻāhole fish found in the area. [6] [7] In 1993, the airport was renamed Keāhole-Kona International Airport, after the nearby resort town of Kona. [8]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 5.2 square miles (13 km 2), of which 2.3 square miles (6.0 km 2) is land and 2.9 square miles (7.5 km 2), or 55.53%, is water. Mākaha is the last town going northbound on the leeward side of O'ahu, and is a part of Honolulu County.
At 13.21 sq mi (34.2 km 2), it is the smallest county by land area in the United States and is often omitted from maps. Kalawao County shares the island of Molokaʻi with Maui County and occupies only 5% of the island's 260 sq mi (670 km 2 ) and 1.2% of the island's 7,404 residents.