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Hawaiʻi Kai is the largest of several communities at the eastern end of the island. The area was largely developed by Henry J. Kaiser around the ancient Maunalua fishpond and wetlands area known as Kuapā (meaning "fishpond wall"). Hawaiʻi Kai or Koko Marina was dredged from Kuapā Pond starting around 1959.
Oʻahu (pronounced, / oʊ ˈ ɑː h uː /, sometimes written Oahu) 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 Oʻahu's southeast coast.
At one time, Hawaiʻi had a network of railroads on each of the larger islands that helped move farm commodities as well as passengers. These railroads were for the majority 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge, although there were some 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge tracks on some of the smaller islands as well as the Hawaii Consolidated Railway (HCR), which operated in standard 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm ...
TI-HI, Ti-High, Tie-High, or Ti by Hi is a term often used in the logistics industry.. It refers to the number of boxes/cartons stored on a layer, or tier, (the TI) and the number of layers high that these will be stacked on the pallet (the HI). [1]
Kāhala, is a neighborhood in Honolulu, Hawaii. Kahala contains a large concentration of luxury real estate and beachfront properties. It consists of approximately 1,200 homes. [1] [2] Kahala is also home to the Kahala Hotel & Resort, formerly known as the Kahala Mandarin Oriental, and prior to the Kahala Hilton.
Registered title to land is guaranteed by the State (and a special trust fund) to be solid ("good against the whole world") and is rarely challenged. Original applications to register new land parcels have become rare in Hawaii in recent years. It is possible, under a Hawaii statute, to take land out of the Land Court system into the Regular ...
By 1929, Hawaii Gov. Wallace R. Farrington proclaimed Lei Day to be May 1. In 1929, a song came out with that name. This year, Cravalho covered the popular song with fellow Hawaiian musician Paula ...
While the Jones Act does not affect transportation of goods to Hawaii directly from Asia, this type of trade is nonetheless not common; this is a result of other primarily economic reasons including additional costs associated with stopping over in Hawaii (e.g. pilot and port fees), the market size of Hawaii, and the economics of using ever ...