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Mānana
Mānana Island is an uninhabited islet located off Kaupō Beach, near Makapuʻu, Makapuu at the eastern end of the island of Oahu, Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands. In the Hawaiian language, ''mānana'' means "Buoyancy, buoyant". The islet is commonly referred to as Rabbit Island, because its shape as seen from the nearby Oahu shore looks something like a rabbit's head and because it was once inhabited by Domestic rabbit, introduced rabbits. The rabbit colony was established by John Adams Cummins in the 1880s when he ran the nearby Waimanalo, Hawaii, Waimānalo plantation. The rabbits were eradicated about a hundred years later because they were destroying the native ecosystem, an important seabird Bird colony, breeding area. Mānana is a Phreatomagmatic eruption#Tuff cones, tuff cone with two vents or Volcanic crater, craters. The highest point on the islet rises to . The island is long and wide and has an area of about . Mānana's only sand beach is a small storm beach on the we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kāohikaipu
Kāohikaipu (also known as Black Rock) is an islet located in Honolulu County, Hawaii, off the east coast of Oahu. It is situated from nearby Mānana Island (Rabbit Island). Both Kāohikaipu and Mānana Island are northeast of Makapuʻu Point. The total size of Kāohikaipu is . Kāohikaipu′s formation was due to the Honolulu Volcanic Series, which were a series of eruptions by the Koʻolau Range that created numerous vents near Honolulu such as Diamond Head. The islet is a wildlife sanctuary for bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class (biology), class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the Oviparity, laying of Eggshell, hard-shelled eggs, a high Metabolism, metabolic rate, a fou ...s and a permit is needed for people to access it. See also * Mānana (Rabbit Island) * Honolulu Volcanics * Makapuʻu References {{Hawaii-geo-stub Geography of Honolulu County, Hawaii Volcanoes of Hawaii Islands of H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honolulu Volcanic Series
The Honolulu Volcanics are a group of volcanoes which form a volcanic field on the island of Oahu, Oʻahu, Hawaii, Hawaiʻi, more specifically in that island's southeastern sector and in the city of Honolulu from Pearl Harbor to the Mokapu Peninsula. It is part of the Rejuvenated stage volcanism, rejuvenated stage of Hawaiian volcanic activity, which occurred after the main stage of volcanic activity that on Oʻahu built the Koʻolau volcano. These volcanoes formed through dominantly explosive eruptions and gave rise to cinder cones, lava flows, tuff cones and volcanic islands. Among these are well known landmarks such as Diamond Head, Hawaii, Diamond Head and Punchbowl Crater. Volcanic activity began less than one million years ago and occurred at between 40 and 30 separate volcanic vents, some of which are submarine. Sea level varied during the activity of the volcanic field, and some volcanic eruptions have been dated through correlation with individual sea level fluctuations. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islands Of Hawaii
The following is a list of the islands in Hawaii. The state of Hawaii, consisting of the Hawaiian Islands, has the List of U.S. states by coastline, fourth-longest ocean coastline of the 50 states (after Alaska, Florida, and California) at . It is the only state that consists entirely of islands, with of land. The Hawaiian Island archipelago extends some from the southernmost island of Hawaii (island), Hawaiʻi to the northernmost Kure Atoll. Despite being within the boundaries of Hawaii, Midway Atoll, comprising several smaller islands, is not included as an island of Hawaii, because it is classified as a United States Minor Outlying Islands and is therefore administered by the federal government and not the state. The Palmyra Atoll, historically claimed by both Hawaiian Kingdom, Hawaii and the United States is not included because it was separated from Hawaii when it became a state in 1959 and is part of the United States Minor Outlying Islands. The Johnston Atoll which is not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
The wedge-tailed shearwater (''Ardenna pacifica'') is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. It is one of the shearwater species that is sometimes referred to as a muttonbird, like the sooty shearwater of New Zealand and the short-tailed shearwater of Australia. It is found throughout the Tropics, tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans, roughly between latitudes 35°N and 35°S. It breeds on the islands off Japan, on the Islas Revillagigedo, the Hawaiian Islands, the Seychelles, the Northern Mariana Islands, and off Eastern and Western Australia. Taxonomy The wedge-tailed shearwater was Species description, formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's ''Systema Naturae''. He placed it with the petrels in the genus ''Procellaria'' and coined the binomial nomenclature, binomial name ''Procellaria pacifica''. Gmelin based his description on the "Pacific petrel" that had been des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makapuʻu
Makapuu is the extreme eastern end of the Island of Oahu, Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands, comprising the remnant of a ridge that rises 647 feet (197 m) above the sea. The cliff at Makapuu Point forms the eastern tip and is the site of a prominent lighthouse. The place name of this area, meaning "bulging eye" in Hawaiian language, Hawaiian, is thought to derive from the name of an image said to have been located in a cave here called ''Keanaokeakuapōloli''. The entire area is quite scenic and a panoramic view is presented at the lookout on Kalanianaole Highway (State Rte. 72) where the roadway surmounts the cliff just before turning south towards leeward Oahu and Honolulu. The Makapuu area is reached approximately east of Waimanalo Beach, Hawaii, Waimānalo Beach on Kalanianaole Highway (State Rte. 72) or from the Honolulu side (south shore; Hawaii Kai, Hawaii, Hawaii Kai) travelling east along the same highway beyond Sandy Beach, Hawaii, Sandy Beach. The Makapuu Point St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
