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Live webcams of Kīlauea and Mauna Loa; USGS updates on Kilauea's Lava (and water) lakes, May 11, 2022; Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park website; Hawaii Groundwater & Geothermal Resources Center by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; The Geothermal Collection by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Oahu (/ oʊ ˈ ɑː h uː / oh-AH-hoo; Hawaiian: Oʻahu pronounced) is the third-largest and most populated island of the Hawaiian Islands and of the U.S. state of Hawaii. [1] The state capital, Honolulu, is on Oahu's southeast coast. The island of Oahu and the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands [2] constitute the City and County of ...
Camp H. M. Smith is a United States Marine Corps installation in the Halawa census-designated place on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, [1] near the community of Halawa (ha-LA-va) Heights. It is the headquarters of the United States Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), Special Operations Command Pacific , and Marine Forces Pacific , the Marine service ...
The Waikiki Natatorium War Memorial is a war memorial in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, built in the form of an ocean water public swimming pool.The Natatorium was built as a living memorial dedicated to "the men and women who served during the great war" [1] (now known as World War I).
They are part of the Hawaii State Seabird Sanctuary and activities on them as well as off-limit areas on them are regulated by law. [2] Specifically, the smaller islet, Moku Iki, is off-limits to visitors, as is the interior of Moku Nui. Also, no pets are allowed. Many birds nest in ground burrows on the islands.
Kalaeloa Airport (IATA: JRF, ICAO: PHJR, FAA LID: JRF), also called John Rodgers Field (the original name of Honolulu International Airport) and formerly Naval Air Station Barbers Point, is a joint civil-military regional airport of the State of Hawaiʻi established on July 1, 1999, to replace the Ford Island NALF facilities which closed on June 30 of the same year.
The Pali Highway (Hawaii State Highway 61) connecting Kailua/Kāneʻohe with downtown Honolulu runs through the Nuʻuanu Pali Tunnels bored into the cliffside. The area is also the location of the Nuʻuanu Freshwater Fish Refuge [ 4 ] and the Nuʻuanu Reservoir [ 5 ] [ 6 ] in the jurisdiction of the Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural ...
When geologist Thomas Jaggar of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gave a lecture in Honolulu in 1909, he was approached by businessman Lorrin A. Thurston (grandson of Asa Thurston who was on the 1823 missionary tour) about building a full-time scientific observatory at Kīlauea. The Hawaiian Volcano Research Association was formed by ...