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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] |
Hawaiian Islands
The Hawaiian Islands () are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the Pacific Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the Hawaii (island), island of Hawaii in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll. Formerly called the Sandwich Islands by Europeans, the present name for the archipelago is derived from the name of its largest island, Hawaii. The archipelago sits on the Pacific Plate. The islands are exposed peaks of a great undersea mountain range known as the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain, formed by volcano, volcanic activity over the Hawaiian hotspot. The islands are about from the nearest continent and are part of the Polynesia subregion of Oceania. The U.S. state of Hawaii occupies the archipelago almost in its entirety (including the mostly uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands), with the sole exception of Midway Atoll (a United States Minor Outlying Island). Hawaii is the only U.S. state that is sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oahu
Oahu (, , sometimes written Oahu) is the third-largest and most populated island of the Hawaiian Islands and of the U.S. state of Hawaii. The state capital, Honolulu, is on Oahu's southeast coast. The island of Oahu and the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands constitute the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, City and County of Honolulu. In 2021, Oahu had a population of 995,638, up from 953,207 in 2010 (approximately 70% of the total 1,455,271 population of the Hawaiian Islands, with approximately 81% of those living in or near the Honolulu urban area). Oahu is long and across. Its shoreline is long. Including small associated islands such as Ford Island plus those in Kāneohe Bay and off the eastern (windward and leeward, windward) coast, its area is , making it the List of islands of the United States by area, 20th-largest island in the United States. Well-known features of Oahu include Waikīkī, Pearl Harbor, Diamond Head, Hawaii, Diamond Head, Hanauma Bay, Kān ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storm Beach
A storm beach is a beach affected by particularly fierce wind wave, waves, usually with a very long fetch (geography), fetch. The resultant landform is often a very steep beach (up to 45°) composed of rounded Cobble (geology), cobbles, shingle beach, shingle and occasionally sand. The stones usually have an obvious Grade (slope), grading of pebbles, from large to small, with the larger diameter stones typically arrayed at the highest beach elevations. It may also contain many small parts of shipwrecked boats. Examples A noted textbook example is the long Chesil Beach in Dorset, one of three major shingle structures in Britain. It also connects the Isle of Portland to the mainland at Abbotsbury, west of the resort of Weymouth, Dorset, Weymouth. Other examples appear in the Shetland Islands, Shetland and Orkney Islands, as well as the Scotland, Scottish mainland at Caithness. The beaches of Lakshdweep Islands are also storm beaches. Gallery File:Storm Beach - geograph.org.uk - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawai'i Department Of Land And Natural Resources
The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) is a part of the Government of Hawaii, Hawaii state government dedicated to managing, administering, and exercising control over public lands, water resources and streams, ocean waters, coastal areas, minerals, and other natural resources of the State of Hawaii, Hawaiʻi. The mission of the Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources is to "enhance, protect, conserve and manage Hawaiʻi's unique and limited natural, cultural and historic resources held in public trust for current and future generations of the people of Hawaiʻi nei, and its visitors, in partnership with others from the public and private sectors." The organization oversees over 1.3 million acres of land, beaches, and coastal waters and 750 miles of coastal land. The DLNR is established in the Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes §26-15 and establishes the Board of Land Natural Resources as the governing entity. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawaiian Monk Seal
The Hawaiian monk seal (''Neomonachus schauinslandi'') is an endangered species of earless seal in the family Phocidae that is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaiian monk seal is one of two extant monk seal species; the other is the Mediterranean monk seal. A third species, the Caribbean monk seal, is extinct. The Hawaiian monk seal is the only seal native to Hawaii, and, along with the Hawaiian hoary bat, is one of only two mammals endemic to the islands. ''N. schauinslandi'' is a conservation reliant endangered species. The small population of about 1,400 individuals is threatened by human encroachment, very low levels of genetic variation, entanglement in fishing nets, marine debris, disease, and past commercial hunting for skins. There are many methods of conservation biology when it comes to endangered species; translocation, captive care, habitat cleanup, and educating the public about the Hawaiian monk seal are some of the methods that can be employed. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red-tailed Tropicbird
The red-tailed tropicbird (''Phaethon rubricauda'') is a seabird native to tropical parts of the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Oceans. One of three closely related species of tropicbird (Phaethontidae), it was described by Pieter Boddaert in 1783. Superficially resembling a tern in appearance, it has almost all-white plumage with a black mask and a red bill. The sexes have similar plumage. As referenced in the common name, adults have red that are about twice their body length. Four subspecies are recognised, but there is evidence of Cline (biology), clinal variation in body size—with smaller birds in the north and larger in the south—and hence no grounds for subspecies. The red-tailed tropicbird eats fish—mainly flying fish and squid—after catching them by plunge-diving into the ocean. Nesting instinct, Nesting takes place in loose bird colony, colonies on oceanic islands; the nest itself is a Bird nest#Scrape, scrape found on a cliff face, in a crevice, or on a sand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulwer's Petrel
Bulwer's petrel (''Bulweria bulwerii'') is a small petrel in the family Procellariidae that is found in tropical and subtropical regions of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is named after the English naturalist James Bulwer. Taxonomy Bulwer's petrel was formally described in 1828 by the naturalists Jardine and Selby who coined the binomial name ''Procellaria bulwerii''. The specific epithet was chosen to acknowledge the artist and naturalist James Bulwer who had collected the type specimen on the island of Madeira. Bulwer's petrel is now placed in the genus ''Bulweria '' that was introduced in 1843 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. Description This very long-winged petrel is in length with a wingspan. It has mainly brown plumage and a long pointed tail. It has a buoyant twisting flight as it picks planktonic food items from the ocean surface. Distribution and habitat The species has a wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
