Portal:Hawaii/Did you know

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Items in rotation 1

Timless

...that Nāʻālehu, Hawaiʻi, located on the Big Island, is the southernmost town in the United States?
...that ʻIolani Palace is the only royal palace in the United States?
...that the name of the state fish is humuhumunukunukuapuaʻa?
...that Kīlauea is the world's most active volcano?
...that the Big Island is Hawaiʻi's largest at 4,038 square miles? It is twice the size of all other Hawaiian Islands combined.
...that Hawaiʻi is the only state that grows coffee?

May 2004

...that Kawaiahaʻo Church (pictured) is known as the Westminster Abbey of Hawaii?

February 2007

...that Hawaii Route 560 was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 because of its historical character of one lane bridges?

Items in rotation 2

May 2007

... Kona lows, not tropical cyclones, cause most severe weather in Hawaii?

July 2007

... that at the Pali Lookout during the Battle of Nuʻuanu 400 warriors were driven over a cliff by Kamehameha I?

September 2007

...that Ah Jook Ku, was the first Asian-American reporter for the Associated Press, as well as the first Asian-American female reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin?

January 2008

...that Hurricane Kenneth brought heavy rainfall to Oahu and Kauai in Hawaii, enough for its named to be considered for retirement?

April 2008

... that Amaranthus brownii, an endangered species of pigweed endemic to the Northwestern Hawaiian Island of Nihoa, was discovered in 1923, but has not been seen in the wild for twenty-five years?
... that 'Opaeka'a Falls (pictured) on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is named after the native freshwater shrimp that "roll" down the falls?
... that the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology is the only research center in the world built on a coral reef?
... that counts of humpback whales in the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary are increasing by 7% per year?

Items in rotation 3

... that Hawaii's Chain of Craters Road has been blocked repeatedly by lava flows from Kīlauea volcano since it was built in 1928?

August 2008

... that Thyrocopa is a genus of flightless moth endemic to Hawaii?
... that hula master George Naʻope was designated a "Living Golden Treasure" by the state of Hawaii?
... that the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts, concluded 2 August 2008 in American Samoa, brought together about 2,000 artists from 27 countries across Oceania?

September 2008

... that Hawaiian cultural advocate Bob Worthington served as the honorary consul of the Cook Islands to the United States?
...that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is estimated to be the size of Texas?

October 2008

... that AMiBA (pictured) is a radio telescope located on Mauna Loa in Hawaii that is being used to observe the cosmic microwave background and the Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect in clusters of galaxies?

December 2008

... that the Hawaii State Legislature declared October 29, 2005, "Samuel Kamakau Day," in recognition of the Hawaiian scholar who wrote over 200 articles about Hawaiian history?

Items in rotation 4

... that Kamilo Beach on the island of Hawaii, along with 2.8 miles (4.5 km) of adjacent shoreline, is considered one of the dirtiest beaches in the world because of accumulated marine debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

July 2009

... that in the course of its 150-year history, Haili Church (pictured) has survived earthquakes, tsunamis, lava flows, fires, and heavy tropical rains?
... that one of a series of hotels called the Volcano House, built at the edge of Kīlauea volcano since 1846, burned to the ground from a kitchen fire?
... that George Lycurgus, who developed two historic hotels in Hawaii, was arrested and imprisoned for treason after the failed 1895 counter-revolution?
... that the first newspaper in Hawaii was printed by students of Lorrin Andrews in 1834, on a printing press brought to the islands in 1820?

October 2009

... that William Herbert Shipman owned a historic house in Hilo, Hawaii, a refuge from World War II near a volcano, and a remote beach estate where endangered nēnē were raised?
... that Hawaiian Chiefess Kapiʻolani's walk into an active volcano in 1824 was the subject of a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson?

November 2009

... that a missionary brought the first trees of Kona coffee to Kealakekua Church in 1828?

Items in rotation 5

Satellite map showing the Hawaiian – Emperor seamount chain

... that missionary John D. Paris had one of his churches occupied by a self-proclaimed prophet who predicted the end of the world in 1868?
... that the Hawaiian town Kainaliu was named after an ancient canoe bailer who worked for King Keawenuiaʻumi in the 16th century?
... that "George Prince" Kaumualiʻi Humehume traveled the world and served in the War of 1812, before returning to Kauaʻi and leading a failed rebellion in 1824?
... that the aftershocks of the 1868 Hawaii earthquake, the largest in the island's history, continue to the present day?
... that the crematory at the Oahu Cemetery in Hawaii was used to burn $200 million in U.S. bank notes after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941?
... that Hawaiians named a tsunami after 18th century surfer and statesman Naihe?

December 2009

... that since the death of Kamehameha I in 1819, Hawaiian Chief Hoʻolulu and his descendants have served as caretakers of the royal tombs of the Kingdom of Hawaii?
... that to prevent extinction of the Mauna Kea silversword, scientists rappel over cliffs to hand-pollinate the approximately 41 remaining in the wild, on the rare occasion that one blossoms?
... that the volcanic chain (pictured) responsible for creating the island of Hawaii extends all the way to the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench, at the border of Russia?

Items in rotation 6

... that Hawaiian missionary David Belden Lyman's son Rufus Anderson Lyman had 15 children; two became Generals in World War II?

January 2010

... that Rev. Elias Bond (1813–1896) used proceeds from a Hawaiian sugar plantation to fund his church and a girls' seminary?
... that despite losing his right arm and having no formal civil engineering education, Henry Perrine Baldwin (pictured) oversaw a pioneering sugarcane irrigation system on the Hawaiian island of Maui in 1876?
... that the last two buildings used by the Makawao Union Church were built atop the foundation of a 19th-century sugarcane mill in Maui, Hawaii?
... that the Kukaniloko Birth Site was speculated to be a Hawaiian Stonehenge?

March 2010

... that while Timothy Haʻalilio and William Richards were in Europe negotiating for diplomatic recognition of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1843, they found out it was already under a British occupation?
... that during the 1824–1842 term of Richard Charlton as the first British consul to the Kingdom of Hawaii, he was involved in a controversial land claim?

Items in rotation 7

... that Harvard-educated William Little Lee became the first Chief Justice of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1848 at the age of only 27?
... that King Leopold signed a contract with Ladd & Co. for Belgian colonization of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1843?
... that clients of wandering frontier lawyer John Ricord included Sam Houston and Hawaiian King Kamehameha III?
... that former Scottish doctor Robert Crichton Wyllie (pictured) proposed a plan for British colonization of California in the 1840s?
... that former Spanish sailor Francisco de Paula Marín (1774–1837) introduced many crops such as pineapple to Hawaii?
... that despite inheriting the vast Parker Ranch as a child, Richard Smart (1913–1992) became an actor and singer in musical theater on Broadway?
... that a fire set to destroy buildings infected by bubonic plague in 1900 destroyed most of the Chinatown of Honolulu?