Which 10,000 M tall mountain on the Hawaii island, does the Hale Pohaku sit atop of?
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Onizuka Center for International Astronomy The Onizuka Center for International Astronomy, also known as Hale Pōhaku, is a complex of support facilities for the telescopes and other instruments that comprise the Mauna Kea Observatory atop Mauna Kea, on Hawaiʻ i island.
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Mauna Kea Mauna Kea ( or , ] ), is a dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii. Standing 4207 m above sea level, its peak is the highest point in the state of Hawaii. Much of the mountain is under water; when measured from its oceanic base, Mauna Kea is over 10000 m tall and is the tallest mountain on Earth. Mauna Kea is about a million years old, and has thus passed the most active shield stage of life hundreds of thousands of years ago. In its current post-shield state, its lava is more viscous, resulting in a steeper profile. Late volcanism has also given it a much rougher appearance than its neighboring volcanoes; contributing factors include the construction of cinder cones, the decentralization of its rift zones, the glaciation on its peak, and the weathering effects of the prevailing trade winds. Mauna Kea last erupted 6,000 to 4,000 years ago and is now considered dormant.
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Pritchardia waialealeana Pritchardia waialealeana, the poleline pritchardia, is a species of palm tree that is endemic to the island of Kauaʻ i in Hawaii, United States. It inhabits wet forests on the slopes of Mount Waiʻ aleʻ ale at elevations of 500 - . "P. waialealeana", is a large palm, reaching a height of more than 20 m .
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Kalaupapa, Hawaii Kalaupapa is a small unincorporated community on the island of Molokaʻ i, within Kalawao County in the U.S. state of Hawaii. In 1866, during the reign of Kamehameha V, the Hawaii legislature passed a law that resulted in the designation of Molokaʻ i as the site for a leper colony, where seriously affected patients could be quarantined, to prevent them from infecting others. At the time, the disease was little understood: it was believed to be highly contagious and incurable. In the communities where people with leprosy lived and were treated were under the administration of the Board of Health, which appointed superintendents on the island.
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Maʻilikākahi Chief Maʻilikākahi (Hawaiian: "Aliʻi Maʻilikākahi"; Hawaiian pronunciation: "Mah-eeleeh-kah-kah-heeh"; also known as Maʻilikukahi) was a High Chief of the island of Oahu in ancient Hawaii. He is known today from the old chants as one of the early and beneficent rulers of Oʻahu.
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Mayor of Kalawao County The Mayor of Kalawao County is the chief executive officer of Kalawao County in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Kalawao County, which lacks a local government, is administered by the Hawaii Department of Health. Under Hawaii state law, the Director of the Hawaii Department of Health, who is appointed by the Governor of Hawaii, simultaneously serves as the Mayor of Kalawao County while in office. The Mayor of Kalawao County holds executive powers similar to other elected Hawaiian mayors, including the responsibilities of health, public safety and law and order. The Mayor appoints a county sheriff selected from Kalawao County residents. He or she visits Kalawao several times a year to meet with local residents. Kalawao County, which is located on the Kalaupapa Peninsula on the north coast of Moloka'i, consists of three villages - Kalaupapa, Kalawao, and Waikolu.
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Poʻouli The poʻ o-uli ("Melamprosops phaeosoma"), or black-faced honeycreeper, is a species of passerine bird that is endemic to the island of Maui in Hawaiʻi. It is considered to be a member of the Hawaiian honeycreepers, and is the only member of its genus Melamprosops. It has a black head, brown upper parts and pale grey underparts. This bird is only known from the drier, easternmost side of Maui, and has decreased in numbers so that now only a few individuals, if any, remain. With extinction threatening, efforts have been made to capture birds to enable them to breed in captivity. This has been largely unsuccessful, and in 2004, only two known birds remained, and since then, no further birds have been sighted.
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Nuʻuanu Pali Nuʻ uanu Pali is a section of the windward cliff ("pali" in Hawaiian) of the Koʻ olau mountain located at the head of Nuʻ uanu Valley on the island of Oʻ ahu. It has a panoramic view of the windward (northeast) coast of Oʻ ahu. The Pali Highway (Hawaii State Highway 61) connecting Kailua/Kāneʻ ohe with downtown Honolulu runs through the Nuʻ uanu Pali Tunnels bored into the cliffside.
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Kalalau Beach Kalalau Beach is a beach on the Nā Pali Coast at the base of the Kalalau Valley in north-west Kauaʻ i in Hawaiʻ i. It is the final destination of the Kalalau Trail, one of the most difficult trails on the Hawaiian Islands. The beach is approximately 1 mile long, with trails snaking through the rest of the valley where people in hiding are rumored to live. There is a camp site on the beach, with a waterfall providing fresh water and composting toilets available. Camping requires a permit. All trash must be packed out. The beach is beautiful and secluded.
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Hawaii hotspot The Hawaii hotspot is a volcanic hotspot located near the namesake Hawaiian Islands, in the northern Pacific Ocean. One of the most well-known and heavily studied hotspots in the world, the Hawaii plume is responsible for the creation of the Hawaiian – Emperor seamount chain, a chain of volcanoes over 5,800 kilometres (3,600 mi) long. Four of these volcanoes are active, two are dormant, and more than 123 are extinct, many having since been ground beneath the waves by erosion as seamounts and atolls. The chain extends from south of the island of Hawaiʻ i to the edge of the Aleutian Trench, near the eastern edge of Russia. While most volcanoes are created by geological activity at tectonic plate boundaries, the Hawaii hotspot is located far from plate boundaries. The classic hotspot theory, first proposed in 1963 by John Tuzo Wilson, proposes that a single, fixed mantle plume builds volcanoes that then, cut off from their source by the movement of the Pacific Plate, become increasingly inactive and eventually erode below sea level over millions of years. According to this theory, the nearly 60° bend where the Emperor and Hawaiian segments of the chain meet was caused by a sudden shift in the movement of the Pacific Plate. In 2003, fresh investigations of this irregularity led to the proposal of a mobile hotspot theory, suggesting that hotspots are mobile, not fixed, and that the 47-million-year-old bend was caused by a shift in the hotspot's motion rather than the plate's.
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Waiākea-Uka Waiākea-Uka (IPA:/'waj.ə.kei.ə.'u.kə/) is an ancient subdivision ("ahupuaʻ a") in the Hilo District of the Big Island of Hawaiʻ i, located mauka (mountain-side) of the Waiākea ahupua'a; its location is on the lower flanks of the volcano Mauna Loa. Because of this, one meaning of the name 'Waiākea-Uka' can be translated from 'Olelo Hawai'i as '(the) mountain-side (of) Waiākea'. Many ahupua'a have this -uka appellation, as the directions 'mountain-side' and 'sea-side' (makai) are the two best ways of orientating something in space on any of the islands.
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Maunaloa, Hawaii Maunaloa or Mauna Loa is a census-designated place (CDP) in Maui County, Hawaiʻ i, United States, in the western part of the island of Molokai. The population was 376 at the 2010 census.
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Wailuku River The Wailuku River is a 28.0 mi water course on the Island of Hawaiʻ i in the Hawaiian Islands. It is the longest river in Hawai'i and its course lies mostly along the divide between the lava flows of Mauna Kea and those of Mauna Loa to the south. It arises at about the 10800 ft elevation along the eastern slope of Mauna Kea ( ). It flows generally eastward, descending steeply from the mountain and entering the Pacific Ocean at Hilo.
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Green Hill, New Zealand Green Hill (also Matanginui or Greenmount) is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland volcanic field, located in the suburb of Greenmount. Its scoria cone had a peak 78 metres above sea level (around 48 m higher than the surrounding land), and had a grove of karaka trees. The hill was the site of a pā. It was quarried from 1870 onwards, and has been mostly quarried away. The site is now Greenmount landfill. Green Hill and nearby Otara Hill were together referred to as Bessy Bell and Mary Gray after an old Scottish ballad.
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Kualapuu, Hawaii Kualapuʻ u is a census-designated place (CDP) on the island of Molokai in Maui County, Hawaiʻ i, United States. The population was 2,027 at the 2010 census. "Kualapuʻ u" can be literally translated as "hill overturned", but is thought to be a corruption of "Puʻ uʻ uala": "sweet potato hill". The present settlement is a former pineapple cannery village once associated with Del Monte Foods.
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North Koolaupoko, Hawaii North Koʻ olaupoko is an area in the City & County of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, on the island of Oʻ ahu. It corresponds to the Waikane census-designated place, with a population of 778 at the 2010 census. In Hawaiian, "koʻ olau poko" means "short windward", referring to the fact that this is the shorter of the two windward districts on the island ("Koʻ olauloa" or "long windward" is the other). Koʻ olaupoko extends from Makapuʻ u Point on the southeast to Kaʻ ōʻ io Point on the north. Included within the district, south of North Koʻ olaupoko, are the largest windward towns of Kāneʻ ohe, Kailua, and Waimānalo.
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Polipoli Spring State Recreation Area The Polipoli Spring State Recreation Area is a state park of Hawaiʻ i in the United States. It is on the island of Maui about ten miles from Kula up the slope of Haleakalā.
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University of Hawaii Maui College The University of Hawai'i Maui College is a public, co-educational commuter college in Kahului, Hawaiʻ i on the island of Maui. It is one of ten branches of the University of Hawaiʻ i system anchored by the University of Hawaiʻ i at Mānoa in Honolulu and is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
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Nakalele Point Nakalele Point is a land mass on the eastern edge of the northern tip of the island of Maui in the state of Hawaiʻ i. In Hawaiian, Nakalele or Nā-kālele means "the leaning". The Point is known for its blowhole and has become notable for its dangerous conditions when waves crash in. The point and blowhole are located just east of Poelua Bay.
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Palena of Maui Palena (born ca. 1120, Mokae, Hana, Maui) is a name of a chief mentioned in the ancient Hawaiian legends, where it is said that he was a "Moʻi" - king of Maui in ancient Hawaii. It seems that he was a semi-mythical king.
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Mauna Loa Mauna Loa ( or ; Hawaiian: ] ; English: Long Mountain ) is one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi in the Pacific Ocean. The largest subaerial volcano in both mass and volume, Mauna Loa has historically been considered the largest volcano on Earth. It is an active shield volcano with relatively gentle slopes, with a volume estimated at approximately 18000 mi3 , although its peak is about 120 ft lower than that of its neighbor, Mauna Kea. Lava eruptions from Mauna Loa are silica-poor and very fluid, and they tend to be non-explosive.
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Savai'i Savaiʻ i is the largest (area 1700 km) and highest (Mt Silisili at 1,858 m) island in Samoa and the Samoa Islands chain. The island is the fifth largest in Polynesia, behind the two main islands of New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands of Hawaii and Maui.