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55 unusual facts about Hawaii


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.

Arsenius Walsh

Walsh returned to Oahu, where he became the pastor of Ahuimanu.

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.

Brian Cabral

Cabral grew up in Kailua, Hawaii and remains involved in recruiting efforts in Hawaii for the Buffaloes.

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.

Clayton Hee

From 1984 until 1988, Hee served as the State Senator for the district encompassing Kailua to Kaneohe.

Cyrus Foley

However, this relationship lasted a short time, and after her step son Will was sent away, she and her remaining son R.J. moved to Hawaii.

Diamond Head

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

Diane Suzuki

Suzuki was a female resident of Halawa, 4 feet 11 inches tall, 109 pounds, with a slim build, and of Japanese descent.

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.

Earthquake light

The lights are reported to appear while an earthquake is occurring, although there are reports of lights before or after earthquakes, such as reports concerning the 1975 Kalapana earthquake.

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.

Flora Benson

As part of her mission, she taught in the LDS Church-run elementary school in Laie, Hawaii.

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 Route 440

The road begins at Manele Harbor and leads steeply uphill in a northerly direction to Lāna'i City.

Henry Perrine Baldwin

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

Honoapiilani Highway

Following terrain of the island it circumvents the West side of West Maui connecting Olowalu, Launiupuko, Lahaina, Kahana, through the regions of Kapalua and Honolua, and ending in Honokohau Bay.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela

In the meantime, the Planet Express crew travels to Lo'ihi Island in Hawaii, the one spot where humanity has not made its mark.

JJ McKay

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

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.

John R. Pillion

In Congress, he was most notable as an opponent of statehood for both Hawaii and Alaska.

Kala Hose

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

KCOF

KCOF-LP, a low-power radio station (102.5 FM) licensed to Captain Cook, Hawaii, United States

KHAI

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

Kihei

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

Ku Ikaika Challenge

The Ku Ikaika Challenge is an annual big-wave competition, held at Makaha Beach, in Mākaha, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu.

KWHE

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

Lauvale Sape

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

Lolohea Mahe

On January 27, 2010, Mahe was arrested in Lahaina, Hawaii after a fight broke out between him and a group of men in the Lahaina Cannery Mall parking lot at 1:25 am.

Louis Pohl

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, and the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), are among the public collections holding works by Pohl.

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.

Park Place Productions

On 15 September 2009, co-founder Michael Knox died in Kaneohe, Hawaii of colon cancer.

Pisces V

A mock-up of the control panel of the Pisces V can be visited by the public at the Mokupāpapa Discovery Center in Hilo, 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.

Robert Paulele

Robert Paulele (born September 1, 1984 in Waikapu, Hawaii) is an American football coach and former professional player.

Ships of James Cook

Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European discovey of eastern Australia, Hawaii and undertook the first circumnavigation of New Zealand.

Sonya Balmores

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

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.

The Andrea Doria

Jerry tries to get Newman to get rid of the mail; however, he's not interested because he didn't get the transfer to Hawaii, the most sought-after route for all postmen.

The Variable

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

Then I Really Got Scared

Meanwhile, Tom and Lynette want to take the family on a vacation: Tom wants to take them to the luxurious Hawaii, while Lynette wants to take them on a trip to the Grand Canyon, a national park and a seven-minute roller coaster.

Timmy Chang

Born in Waipahu, Hawai'i, Chang attended St. Louis School in Honolulu and was an honors student and a three-year letterman in football and basketball.

Title 1 of the Code of Federal Regulations

Mowat was accused of violating COMFOURTEEN Instruction 5510.35, a regulation restricting access to Kahoolawe Island, Hawaii, which was used by the U.S. military for target practice.

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.

Waikoloa Championships

The Waikoloa Championships was a WTA Tour tournament held in 2001 and 2002 in Waikoloa Village, Hawaiʻi.

Wailuku River

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

Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act of 1954

In addition, loans to localities were authorized and the provisions of the Act were extended to apply to Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

Whitney Anderson

Whitney Anderson's first stint in public office came in 1978, when he won a State House seat representing Kailua.

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).

Zach Scott

Zacharias "Zach" Scott (born July 2, 1980 in Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii) is an American soccer player who currently plays for Seattle Sounders FC in Major League Soccer.


1780 in poetry

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

1874 Transit of Venus Expedition to Hawaii

Charles Darwin's son, Leonard Darwin, was a photographer on the 1874 Transit of Venus Expedition to New Zealand, after which he traveled to Hawaii aboard the Mikado to meet the team in Honolulu.

1989 in the Philippines

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

2010 TK7

The orbital information was published in the journal Nature by Paul Wiegert of the University of Western Ontario, Martin Connors of Athabasca University and Christian Veillet, the executive director of the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope.

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.

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.

Apana

James Apana, also known as Kimo Apana, Mayor of the County of Maui in Hawaii from 1999 to 2003

Carrier Air Wing Two

Port calls during the past three deployments have included stops in Sydney and Perth, Western Australia, Manama (Bahrain), Jebel Ali (United Arab Emirates), Singapore, Kelang (Malaysia), Hong Kong (China), Pusan (Korea), Yokosuka (Japan), and Hawaii.

Communication Moon Relay

The finished system used two sets of transmitters at Annapolis, Maryland and the Opana Radar Site in Hawaii and two sets of receivers at Cheltenham, Maryland and Wahiawa, Hawaii.

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.

Ferg Hawke

He has competed in several ultra-triathlons, including the Ultraman World Championships in Hawaii.

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

Hanauma Bay

Hawaii-themed films and television shows, including Blue Hawaii, Paradise, Hawaiian Style, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Hawaii Five-O, and Magnum, P.I., shot footage at the bay.

Hawai'i Championship Wrestling

Battle Hawaii 2003 and 2004 were significant points in HCW's history as the promotion undertook some brave business ventures in cross-promoting itself with New Japan Pro-Wrestling in Battle Hawaii 2003 with the appearances of Masahiro Chono, Yuji Nagata, Jushin "Thunder" Liger, and Tiger Mask IV and with Battle Hawaii 2004 with the appearances of Sting, DDP, Rikishi, and The Great Muta.

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.

I Never Told You

Later on the song was completed during a three week "writing camp" in Hawaii that Caillat organized with fellow singer/songwriter Jason Reeves and American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi.

Irina Konstantinovna Feodorova

As part of the Russian world expedition, A. J. Krusenstern in the "Nadeshda" and J. F. Lisjansky in the "Neva" sailed to the islands of East Polynesia, including Easter Island, Marquesas and Hawaii.

James Gay Sawkins

The Honolulu Museum of Art, Mission House Museum (Honolulu, Hawaii) and the National Library of Australia (Canberra) are among the public collections holding works by James Gay Sawkins.

John Ronald Brown

Brown continued to practice medicine outside of California, but was successively barred from practicing in Hawaii, Alaska and the island of Saint Lucia.

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.

KPOY

KQNG-FM, a radio station (93.5 FM) licensed to serve Lihue, Hawaii, United States, which held the call sign KPOY from January 1980 to October 1982

KPXO-TV

Due to limited feed abilities, KPXO is not available over-the-air or on cable in many other areas of the state; as a result, the "Big Island" of Hawaii at one point received Ion and its predecessor networks via KLEI (channel 6), even though the entire state of Hawaii is a single television market.

Norwegian Spirit

A petition recently gained victory against Norwegian Cruise Line to bring the Spirit into the Port of Los Angeles in December 2015 to sail year round cruises to Mexico, Hawaii, and the California Coast.

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 Kaiwi

Kaiwi attended School of the Prophets bible school in Copperas Cove, Texas, then received his Bachelors degree in Biology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1997.

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.

Samantha Brown

Samantha Elizabeth Brown (born March 31, 1970) is an American television host, notable for her work as the host of several Travel Channel shows including Girl Meets Hawaii, Great Vacation Homes, Great Hotels, Passport to Europe, Passport to Latin America, Great Weekends, Green Getaways, Passport to China, and Samantha Brown's Asia.

Samuel King

Samuel Pailthorpe King (1916–2010), American lawyer and judge on the United States District Court for the District of 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.

Sherwood Hu

Lani Loa - The Passage was a Hawaiian ghost story/cop movie/spiritual love story, shot in Shanghai and Hawaii, and starred Angus Macfadyen, Ray Bumatai and Chris Tashima.

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.

Stegastes fasciolatus

Its range extends from East Africa to Australia and the Kermadec Islands including Hawaii, Easter Island and the Ryukyu Islands.

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.

Tino Ceberano

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

Transit of Venus, 2012

In Hawaii, hundreds of tourists watched the event on Waikiki Beach where the University of Hawaii set up eight telescopes and two large screens showing webcasts of the transit.

Travels with Scout

In its original American broadcast, "Travels with Scout" was viewed by an estimated 10.008 million households and received an 18–49 demographic of 4.2 and a share of 11% making it the second highest rated episode of the series after "Hawaii" and tying with "Pilot", "Fifteen Percent" and "My Funky Valentine".

Walter Gibson

Walter M. Gibson (1822–1888), English adventurer, Mormon missionary, and government official in the Kingdom of Hawaii

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.

Wendell Kim

Wendell Kim (born March 9, 1950 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a former professional baseball player, coach and manager.

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.