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Punaluʻu Beach. Coordinates: 19.136°N 155.504°W. View of the beach. Punaluʻu Beach (also called Black Sand Beach) is a beach between Pāhala and Nāʻālehu on the Big Island of the U.S. state of Hawaii. The beach has black sand made of basalt and created by lava flowing into the ocean which explodes as it reaches the ocean and cools.
Lanikai Beach. Lanikai Beach or Kaʻōhao Beach is located in Kaʻōhao, a community in the town of Kailua and on the windward coast of Oahu, Hawaii. Although there is a widespread belief that the name Lanikai means "heavenly sea", [1] that is a misconception and a grammatical error, since in the Hawaiian language, the qualifier (lani) comes ...
Waikiki (/ ˌwaɪkɪˈkiː /; [1][2] Hawaiian: Waikīkī; Hawaiian: [vɐjˈtiːtiː, wɐjˈkiːkiː]) is a Honolulu neighborhood and its eponymous beach on the south shore of the island of Oʻahu in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Waikiki Beach is one of six beaches in the district, along with Queen's Beach, Kuhio Beach, Gray's Beach, Fort DeRussy ...
Mākoleʻā. Kahaluʻu Bay Beach Park. Laʻaloa Bay (Magic Sands or White Sands Beach Park) Pāhoehoe Beach Park. North Kona District. Holualoa Bay. North Kona District. Kamakahonu Beach. Kailua Pier, Kailua-Kona.
Papakolea Beach. Coordinates: 18°56′11″N 155°38′47″W. Looking over Papakolea Beach. Papakōlea Beach (also known as Green Sand Beach or Mahana Beach[1]) is a green sand beach located near South Point, in the Kaʻū district of the island of Hawaiʻi. It is one of only four green sand beaches in the world, the others being Talofofo ...
Description. Kamilo Beach is approximately 1,500 feet (460 m) long, and is located on the remote southeast coast of the Kaʻū District on the island of Hawaii, at coordinates 18°58′13″N 155°35′59″W. There are no paved roads to the beach. This beach, situated on a lower lava terrace, is a storm beach. It was formed by the deposit of ...
Ala Moana Beach Park is a free public park on the island of Oahu, U.S. state of Hawaii, located between Waikiki and downtown Honolulu. This 100-acre (0.40 km 2) park has a wide gold-sand beach that is over a half-mile (800 m) long. Protected by a shallow reef offshore, it is one of the most popular open ocean swimming sites in Hawai’i, with ...
Hawaii (/ həˈwaɪ.i / ⓘ hə-WY-ee; [ 9 ] Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi [həˈvɐjʔi, həˈwɐjʔi]) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) southwest of the U.S. mainland. It is the only state not on the North American mainland, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state in the tropics.