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46 unusual facts about Hawaii


2007 Ironman World Championship

The 2007 Ford Ironman World Championship was a triathlon race held on October 13, 2007 in Kailua, Hawaii County, Hawaii.

2013 Pacific hurricane season

More than 9,000 residences were without electricity across the state, with most outages concentrated in Kihei, Maui, and Puna.

Aaron Francisco

Aaron Francisco attended Kahuku High School in Kahuku, Hawai'i (Oahu), and was an All State and All Oahu Interscholastic Association (OIA) selection as a senior.

Ahuimanu, Hawaii

It is located in the community of Temple Valley, Ahuimanu in the ahupua'a of Kāne'ohe near the Ko'olau mountains on the island of Oahu.

Asian Americans in California

California has the largest Asian American population in the U.S., and second highest proportion of Asian American residents, after Hawaii.

Bob Hogue

The novel is historical fiction, mystery, and romance set in Kailua, Oahu around the time of the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

Brigham Young University–Hawaii

Early forms of the BYU Honor Code are found as far back as the days of the Brigham Young Academy and educator Karl G. Maeser.

Darius A. Monsef IV

Darius A. Monsef IV (born September 26, 1981 in Honokaa, Hawaii) is an internet entrepreneur & philanthropist known most widely as the founder of the design community COLOURlovers and co-founder & board member of the All Hands Volunteers international charitable organization.

Diamond Head

Diamond Head, Hawaii, a volcanic cone on the Hawaiian island of O'ahu known to Hawaiians as Leahi

Dick Latvala

While living in Hawaii, Latvala got into tape trading, and after moving to the mainland in the late 1970s, he befriended the Grateful Dead's roadies.

Ed Francis

Francis raised his children on the windward side of Kailua, Oahu.

Eddie Kamae

Eddie Leilani Kamae was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and raised both there and in Lahaina, Maui.

Elmer Cravalho

In the 1970s, he was responsible for developing the waterline from Wailuku to Wailea, which enabled the development of Kihei.

Emil John Mihalik

At that time, his jurisdiction encompassed central and eastern Ohio, Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Alaska and Hawaii.

Francis A. Marzen

Marzen was the founding pastor of Our Lady of Good Counsel Church and School in Pearl City as well as Saints Peter and Paul Church in the Kapi`olani Business District of Honolulu.

Fred Punahoa

Fred Punahoa (also spelled "Punahou") was a Hawaiian musician and slack key guitar player from Kalapana, Hawaii.

Garrett K. Hongo

Garrett Kaoru Hongo (born 30 May 1951 Volcano, Hawaii) is an American poet and author.

Go!Express

In September 2006, Mesa announced that it had reached an agreement with Mokulele Airlines, whereby Mokulele would operate Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft to Kapalua, Molokai, and Lanai under the Go!

Hawaii, Oslo

Its stars Trond Espen Seim, Aksel Hennie, Jan Gunnar Røise and Petronella Barker.

Henry Perrine Baldwin

In 1903 he built another house called Maluhia at a higher elevation near Olinda, Hawaii surrounded by fruit trees.

Hurricane Fefa

A man in Hilo was burnt when lightning moved through telephone wires.

Irie Love

Irie Love (her birth-given name) (born on July 7, 1982 in Kailua, Honolulu County, Hawaii) is a Hawaiian R&B Reggae singer and songwriter.

JJ McKay

JJ McKay was born in Kaneohe, Hawaii to a Marine Officer father and mother from an old small town southern family.

Joe Bertram

A Democrat, he represented the 11th district in south Maui, which includes the communities of Wailea-Makena and Kihei, his hometown.

John M. Paxton, Jr.

Upon completion of The Basic School, he was ordered to Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia and then assigned as a Rifle Platoon Commander in Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, 1st Marine Brigade, Kaneohe, Hawaii.

Kala Hose

Hose is from Waianae, a traditionally blue-collar town on the western coastline of the island of Oahu in Hawaii.

KAUI

KAUI-LP, a low-power television station (channel 51) licensed to Wailuku, Hawaii, United States

KHAI

KHAI (103.5 FM) is a Christian Rock station licensed to Wahiawa, Hawaii and serves the Honolulu radio market.

KUCD

The Clear Channel Communications outlet broadcasts at 101.9 MHz with an ERP of 100 kW and is licensed to Pearl City, Hawaii.

KWHE

KWHE's signal is relayed on satellite stations KWHD (channel 14) in Hilo and KWHM (channel 21) in Wailuku.

Lanikai Beach

Lanikai Beach is located in Lanikai, a neighborhood within Kailua, on the windward coast of Oahu, Hawaii.

Lauvale Sape

Sape attended Leilehua High School in Wahiawa, Hawaii and was a student and a football letterman, he graduated in 1998.

Love, Blactually

Brian feels uncertain that he should carry out this plan, but Cleveland announces plans to elope with Carolyn in Hawaii, which makes their friendship tense.

Marc R. Alexander

After completing his seminary studies in the American College of Louvain (Leuven), he was ordained to the presbyterate for the diocese of Honolulu at Saint John Vianney Church in Kailua on October 18, 1985 where he served as a parochial vicar.

Motel Motel

Motel Motel is an indie folk/rock band based in Brooklyn, New York, with roots and influences from Denver, Colorado; Captain Cook, Hawaii; and Richmond, Virginia and elsewhere across the United States.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Maui County, Hawaii

Several islands are present in Maui County, Hawaii.

Ray Schoenke

Raymond Frederick Schoenke (born September 10, 1941 in Wahiawa, Hawaii) is a former American football player in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Redskins.

Sonya Balmores

Sonya Balmores is an American actress, model, and surfer from Kalaheo, Hawaii who also competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant.

Spotswood College

In 2009, 22 students from Spotswood College's kapa haka group Te Kura Tuarua O Ngamotu were chosen to represent New Zealand at the tenth annual Te Manahua Maori cultural competition in Laie, Hawaii.

Telstra Endeavour

Telstra announced that the cable would connect Sydney, Australia and Hawaii with a 9,000 km link, the largest ever built and owned by an Australian company, providing a transmission capacity of 1.28 terabit/s to Hawaii.

Tetsuo Ochikubo

Tetsuo Ochikubo (1923–1975), also known as Bob Ochikubo, was a Japanese-American painter and printmaker who was born in Waipahu, Hawaii, Honolulu county, Hawaii.

The Diamond Head Game

Borrowing its name from a long dormant volcano on the island of Oahu, the series was hosted by Bob Eubanks and assistant Jane Nelson, and is the only game show that was taped entirely on location in Hawaii.

The Variable

The hundredth episode milestone was celebrated by cast and crew on location in Hawaii.

Virginia Sand

Her journeys included trips to the Galapagos Islands, South America, Mexico, Hawaii, Mount St. Helens, Iguaca Falls, Turkey, Iceland, Ecuador, parts of Asia, and the Danube and Rhine Grand Circle in Europe.

Wailuku River

It flows generally eastward, descending steeply from the mountain and entering the Pacific Ocean at Hilo.

William Drake Westervelt

Pastor of churches in Cleveland, Ohio and Colorado, he settled in Hawaii in 1899, marrying a missionary descendant, Caroline Dickinson Castle (1859–1941).


1780 in poetry

Anna Seward, Elegy on Captain Cook, on James Cook, who died February 13, 1779 in Hawaii

1989 in the Philippines

September 28 - Former President Ferdinand Marcos dies in an inter-organ failure at his hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.

225th

225th Brigade Support Battalion, a United States Army unit based at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii

Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa

She has a short role in Harry Turtledove's novel in Days of Infamy where she is offered the throne of a restored Kingdom of Hawaii.

Adam Smith University

John Bear states that Adam Smith University has been located in Hawaii, Louisiana, Montana, and South Dakota in the past.

Allen Hutchinson

In 1888, he moved to Hawaii, where he modeled busts of King Kalākaua, Robert Louis Stevenson, and president of the Republic of Hawaii Sanford B. Dole.

Anatrachyntis rileyi

It is found in much of the warm or tropical areas of the world, including northern Australia, the Galápagos Islands, Hawaii, the Antilles, and South America.

Andon Amaraich

The Honorable Andon L. Amaraich (born August 24, 1932 on the island of Ta, Mortlock Islands, in what is now Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia, died January 26, 2010 in Honolulu, Hawaii) was a Micronesian public servant, politician, diplomat and judge.

Beyond Paradise

It did well at the box office in Hawaii; according to Variety Magazine, it beat The Matrix in ticket sales in Hawaii.

Bu Laia

Bu Laʻia (born as Shawn Kaui Hill in Waimanalo, Hawaii) is a Hawaiian comedian known for his use of Hawaiian pidgin and for wearing a large "afro style" wig and blacking out one of his front teeth while performing.

Caren Marsh Doll

Once a month on the first Monday, Marsh volunteers as a dance therapy instructor at the Palm Springs Stroke Activity Center where the styles taught range from themes like ballroom dancing, country, Hawaiian, and belly dancing.

Dick Tomey

From 1977 to 1986, he led his teams at Hawaii to their first in season top-20 Associated Press ranking in 1981, and their first AP first-team All-American player, Al Noga.

Discovery Kids

The show is similar in nature to Survivor, whereby teams compete in exotic locales (such as Hawaii and Tehachapi).

Emma Wo

On August 16, 2008, Wo represented Hawaii in the Miss Teen USA 2008 pageant held in Atlantis Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas, the first Miss Teen USA pageant held outside the United States.

Fortunato Teho

During this time, Teho also began writing regular gardening columns for newspapers throughout the state of Hawaii, including the Honolulu Advertiser and Star-Bulletin, the Hilo Hawaii Tribune-Herald, the Maui News and the Kauai Garden Island.

Governor Cox

Keeaumoku II, a Governor of Maui under the Kingdom of Hawaii, known as "Governor Cox" by foreigners

Hawaii Tokai International College

Kenji Sakaguchi, a Japanese actor and son of pro wrestler Seiji Sakaguchi, starring in various T.V. dramas, attended Hawaii Tokai International College.

Hawaii v. Office of Hawaiian Affairs

In 1893, a "Committee of Safety," in co-operation with United States minister to Hawaii John L. Stevens, overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii and established a provisional government.

Heinrich Sylvester Theodor Tiling

He combined this knowledge with what he had seen on his return voyage to Europe 1851–1852 as ships surgeon from Ayan via Sachalin, Kamchatka, Sitka, Hawaii, Tahiti, around the Cape Hoorn and through the Atlantic Ocean back to the baltic seaport Kronstadt, now a suburb of St.Petersburg.

Henry Carter

Henry A. P. Carter (1837–1891), American diplomat in the Kingdom of Hawaii

Huc-Mazelet Luquiens

The Bishop Museum (Honolulu, Hawaii), the Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), the Hilo Art Museum (Hilo, Hawaii), the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), and the Yale University Art Gallery are among the public collections holding prints by Huc-Mazelet Luquiens.

June Jones

After initial reports had him interviewing at SMU, Hawaii officials had offers to raise his salary from $800,000 a year to $1.7 million a year and offered a commitment to improve its facilities; in addition there was an outpouring of support from Hawaii fans, including Gov. Linda Lingle.

KAUI

KSHK, a radio station (103.3 FM) licensed to Kekaha, Hawaii, United States, which held the call sign KAUI from September 1989 to March 1999

Kihei

Kihei, Hawaii, census-designated place IN Maui County, Hawaii, United States

Kirk Caldwell

Caldwell served as the acting mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii's capital and largest city, during the tsunami evacuation in the absence of Mayor Mufi Hannemann following the 2010 Chile earthquake.

Makoto Ōoka

What the Kite Thinks: A Linked Poem, by Makoto Ooka, Wing Tek Lum, Joseph Stanton, and Jean Yamasaki Toyama (Manoa: University of Hawaii Press, 1994)

Merchant Street Historic District

Designed by Oliver G. Traphagen, newly arrived from Duluth, Minnesota, it boasted Hawaii's first passenger elevator when it opened in 1898.

My Wife's Best Friend

Virginia Mason (Anne Baxter) and George (Macdonald Carey), husband and wife from Mellford, Illinois, are passengers on an airliner for a second honeymoon in Hawaii.

Namae no Nai Sora o Miagete

A campaign to win a trip to Kauai, Hawaii, where the artwork for the single cover was shot, was launched in July 2004 to celebrate the release of the single.

National Underwater Reconnaissance Office

Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew argue that the origin of NURO was the Soviet submarine K-129 that had sunk outside Hawaii in March 1968.

Nicholas DeVore III

Physical and technical prowess proved him a go-to for arduous assignments: South Pacific canoeing with celestial navigators, Polynesian rafting from Hawaii to Tahiti, Arctic dog sledding, trekking Mt. Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary.

Parribacus antarcticus

antarcticus is distributed along the western coast the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to northern Brazil, along the southern coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean, and in Hawaii and Polynesia in the South Pacific Ocean.

Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council

Its head office was at Polaris House in Swindon, Wiltshire, but it also operated three scientific sites: the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) in Edinburgh, the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) in La Palma and the Joint Astronomy Centre (JAC) in Hawaii.

Paul Isenberg

It was sold to a consortium of Hawaii businessmen in 1918, who changed the name to "American Factors" and the company's store Liberty House.

Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Its 3,718-metre (12,198 ft)-high summit is the highest point in Spain, the highest point above sea level in the islands of the Atlantic, and it is the third highest volcano in the world measured from its base on the ocean floor, after Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea located in Hawaii.

Sam Ku West

Sam Ku West (1907–1930) was an American steel guitar player from Honolulu, Hawaii he died in Neuilly sur Seine near Paris, France.

San Diego Bay

Later it served as base headquarters of major ships of the United States Navy in the Pacific until just before the United States entered World War II, when the newly organized United States Pacific Fleet primary base was transferred to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

SeaPerch

Currently, 112 schools in seven states are participating across the United States in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut.

Sheila Sondergard

Sheila Sondergard (born April 24, 1980) is a singer-songwriter, born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Maui, Hawaii, the Black Hills of South Dakota, and Central America.

Simmone Jade Mackinnon

Mackinnon is known for her role in the Baywatch spin-off series Baywatch Hawaii, where she played the role of 'Allie Reese' opposite David Hasselhoff.

Tevita Finau

Born in Hamilton, New Zealand, to Tolu and Takinima Finau, he lived in Maui until he was eight, in Tonga from years 8 to 12, and in Hawaii until he finished high school.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hawaii

In response Ezra T. Benson and Lorenzo Snow of the quorum of the 12 were sent to take over the leadership of the mission with the assistance of Joseph F. Smith who had been a missionary in Hawaii fro much of the 1850s.

The Waikikis

Composers such as Jo van Wetter, Willy Albimoor, Hans Blum and Michael Thomas (Martin Böttcher) created songs like "Hawaii Tattoo", "Carnival of Venice", "Mein Hut der hat drei Ecken", "Aloha Parade", "Honolulu Parade" and "Waikiki Welcome".

Tino Ceberano

His father was a Filipino migrant who came to Hawaii as a professional boxer.

UK Astronomy Technology Centre

Its initial "customers" were the then new Gemini Observatory, the former ROE observatories in Hawaii (the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT)), and a former RGO observatory, the Isaac Newton Group on La Palma, Canary Islands.

Walsenburg, Colorado

Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle also signed a proclamation validating the Hawaii State flag.

Washington, Kentucky

Other noteworthy people who lived in Washington during the first half of the 1800s include Lorrin Andrews, who taught school in Washington, married a local girl, Mary Wilson, and went on to found what became the University of Hawaii.

William Harding Longley

He studied a lot of plants in places like Hawaii, Samoa, Tortugas, and the Pacific, and examining some in European and American museums.

Xenoconger fryeri

Xenoconger fryeri is an eel of the family Chlopsidae which inhabits tropical waters around Assumption Island and Aldabra in the Indian Ocean and New Caledonia, Palau, Fiji and Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean.