Hawai'i : The Big Island


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Hawai'i is the largest island of the entire Hawaiian chain (~4,000 Sq Miles) and is getting larger every day. It is made up of 5 different volcanoes. "None are truly dead, but only Mauna Loa and Kilauea make regular apperances." -Big Island Revealed, Doughty/Friedman. Located on this island is Mauna Kea, the tallest mountain in the world, measuring 13,796 feet from the ocean floor to its peak!

All photographs by JWC2002© (unless noted)


Punalu'u Black Sand Beach


The endangered "nene"
State Bird


Steaming Bluff, Kilauea Crater
Volcanoes Nat'l Park


Halema'uma'u Crater, Kilauea
Volcanoes Nat'l Park


Muliwai A Pali, Lava Field
Volcanoes Nat'l Park


Thurston Lava Tube
Volcanoes Nat'l Park


1995 flow over
Chain of Craters Rd


2000 Lava/Sea Interface
from Pu'u'O'o Crater

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