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It is also spelled "ahu-a-Umi", or known as Ahua A ʻUmi Heiau, which would mean "mound of ʻUmi". It was built for ʻUmi-a-Liloa, often called ʻUmi, who ruled the island of Hawaiʻi early in the 16th century. He moved the seat of government here from the Waipiʻo Valley.
The aliʻi nui is the supreme ruler (sometimes called the "King" or Moi) of the island. Aliʻi refers to the ruling class of Hawaiʻi prior to the formation of the united kingdom. Here, "Hawaiʻi" refers to the island of Hawaiʻi, also called "the Big Island".
ʻUmi-a-Līloa (fifteenth century) was the supreme ruler Aliʻi-ʻAimoku (High chief of Hawaiʻi Island) who inherited religious authority of the Hawaiian Islands from his father, High Chief Līloa, whose line is traced, unbroken to Hawaiian "creation". [1] Aliʻi-ʻAimoku is the title bestowed on the ruler of a moku, district or island.
Umi (宇美町, Umi-machi) is a town located in Kasuya District, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. [1] As of 31 March 2024 [update] , the town had an estimated population of 36,907 in 16691 households, and a population density of 1200 persons per km². [ 2 ]
The General Post Office (GPO) is the headquarters of Hongkong Post. Built in 1976, it is located at Connaught Place , Central , Hong Kong . The office was adjacent to the former Star Ferry Pier , and it is adjacent to Jardine House and the International Finance Centre .
The Devil's Sea (Japanese: 魔の海, Hepburn: Ma no Umi), also known as the Devil's triangle, the Dragon's Triangle, the Formosa Triangle and the Pacific Bermuda Triangle, is a region of the Pacific, south of Tokyo. The Devil's Sea is sometimes considered a paranormal location, though the veracity of these claims has been questioned.
The Hawaiian islands were formed by volcanic activity initiated at an undersea magma source called the Hawaiʻi hotspot. The process is continuing to build islands; the tectonic plate beneath much of the Pacific Ocean continually moves northwest and the hotspot remains stationary, slowly creating new volcanoes. Because of the hotspot's location ...
Brown boobies atop pier posts at Johnston Atoll, September 2005. The United States Minor Outlying Islands is a statistical designation applying to the minor outlying islands and groups of islands that comprise eight United States insular areas in the Pacific Ocean (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island) and one ...