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Undiscovered Hawaii: Lanai, Kahoolawe, and Niihau

Google Sightseeing·Kyle Kusch·about 1 month ago
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Hawaii is one of the world’s great tourist destinations, with millions of people from around the world streaming into the islands each year. While most tourists lounge their time away on the beaches of Maui, Oahu, Molokai, Kauai, and the Big Island of Hawaii, many forget that there are eight major islands in the archipelago. Today we're going to take a look at the other three major islands of the 50th state of the United States. We begin with Lanai ( Lāna’i ), known as the ‘Pineapple Isle’. Measuring 364 km2 (141 sq. mi.), Lanai is the smallest publicly accessible island of Hawaii. It sits just 14 km (9 mi) west of Maui and south of Molokai but was only inhabited in the 1500s, hundreds of years after its neighbours, for fear that the island was haunted by evil spirits. Lanai is home to the largest prehistoric village ruins in Hawaii, Kaunolu . Once the favourite fishing spot of King Kamehameha I, the village was abandoned in the 1880s.…

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