Hawaii State
- Oahu
Oahu is the third largest Island in the Hawaiian chain and Honolulu is the State Capital.
- Kauai
Kauai is known as the ‘Garden Island’ due to its verdant tropical greenery.
- Molokai
The Island of Molokai (known as ‘The Friendly Isle) is a quiet and peaceful retreat and visiting here is like a step back in history.
- Lanai
The Island of lanai is small but charming.
- Maui
Maui has been nicknamed the ‘Valley Island’ and has many excellent, long, and palm-fringed beaches; a large, volcanic national park, an abundance of visiting humpback whales, and plenty of waterfalls and valleys.
- Hawaii (Big Island)
The Big Island was created from five volcanoes, two of these - Mauna Loa and Kilauea are frequently active. The Island is still increasing in size, due to the Kilauea volcano which has been ejecting molten lava since January 1983, constantly adding land to the Island.
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The Hawaiian Islands are volcanic in origin and every Island is made up of at least one major volcano, although others are made up from more than one. The Big Island, for example, is constructed of 5 major volcanoes: Kilauea, Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea, Hualalai and Kohala. Mauna Loa is the largest of the Earths remaining active volcanoes. Kilauea is currently one of the most prolific volcanoes due to how much lava it erupts each year. These Polynesian islands are said to be the most remote chain of Islands in the World, over 2,000 miles from the nearest land.
The Polynesian migration to Hawaii was part of one of the most significant achievements of humankind: the discovery and settlement of the remote, widely scattered Islands of the central Pacific, before western civilisations had discovered the art of navigation. Anthropologists think that Polynesians from the Marquesas and Society Islands first inhabited the Hawaiian Islands at some point after AD 300-500, although new evidence points to an initial settlement as late as AD 800-1000.
Voyagers from Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa began to settle Islands in an Ocean area of over 10 million square miles, before the birth of Christ. The continuing settlement took a thousand years to complete and involved discovering and charting the position of Islands, some no bigger than a Country Village. By the time European Navigators started to venture into the Pacific Ocean in the 16th century most of the habitable islands had been settled for Centuries by the Polynesians.
Weather on all of the Hawaiian Islands is very steady, with only small changes in temperature throughout the year. The reason is because the all year round sea surface temperatures help keep the overlying air warm too. The summer months are from May to October (average daytime temperatures at sea level -29˚) and the winter months (average daytime temperatures at sea level -25˚) are from November to April. Night time temperatures drop by around 10˚ Fahrenheit. Usually, the Hawaiian Islands get most of their rainfall during the winter months.
The hurricane season is usually around July to October, this is when hurricanes and tropical storms are most likely in the North Pacific. Hurricanes that form east of the Hawaiian Islands and move west towards them are usually diluted by strong upper-level winds. The remains of these can some times result in short rain spells, blustery trade winds up to 30 mph, and treacherous waves on exposed beaches facing northeast, east and southeast. Most hurricanes don’t reach Hawaii, but disperse south of the Big Island and manoeuvre without risk west past the Hawaiian Islands; nevertheless, high surf from these can be dangerous to swimmers. In the past three decades, hurricanes that have formed southwest of Hawaii have affected the Island of Kauai the most. The Islands of Oahu and Maui have been least affected over the past five decades.
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