Kalaupapa on the Makanalua Peninsula is the center of activity on the island of Molokai and was first settled about 650 CE. The natives farmed and fished for 1,200 years and their land was separated by low rock walls. See, also, information about Father Damien and the famous Leper Colony at Kalaupapa. Lonely Kalaupapa Peninsula on the north central coast of Molokai is hemmed in by forbidding 1500 foot cliffs (pali) to the south and hostile pounding surf to the north. Thus isolated and cut off from the rest of civilization, it was deemed an ideal location to build a leper colony. Thus, the town of Kalaupapa was founded and the outcasts from the other islands who had been stricken with leprosy were banished and left to face slow, agonizing deaths. Many, and as late as 1940, were shipped off to the colony on the merest suspicion of having leprosy when sometimes it was a mere skin rash or irritation. In 1873 a young Flemish priest from Belgium, Damien de Veuster, arrived in Kalaupapa to minister to the suffering lepers who had been exiled there. For a spellbinding biography of the life and works of the sainted Father Damien, click, here.
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Father Damien, born Jozef de Veuster Known as Joseph de Veuster
Molokai Ranch is an undeveloped 54,000 acre ranch and lodge. It's many amenities include white sand beaches, high seacliffs with breathtaking views of the ocean, lush green valleys and spectacular scenery. Activities include mountain biking, horseback riding, ocean kayaking, hiking and more. The site includes an array of beautiful photos.
Accommodations, transportation, calendar of events, island highlights, meetings and conventions, school reports and information about weddings and honeymoons on Molokai.
Complete information about flights, air cargo, car rentals, taxicabs, police, fire, ambulance and medical, airports, harbors and highways from the Hawaii State Department of Transportation.
Click Image Above to Enlarge A Black Achilles Tang(Acanthurus achilles) the Hawaiians call them Paku'iku'i or Pakuikui. Or click Here to See a Widescreen Wallpaper Tang. To see photographs of a sampling of the Flowers and Animals on land and in the waters of Hawaii, click Here.
A great deal of Hawaiian music is sung in the native lyric and melodic Hawaiian Language. To use dictionaries of the Hawaiian language and language translators for 200 other languages, including other Polynesian tongues, click here. There is also a dictionary of computer terminology as well as E-mail, chat room and instant messenger language translators. And you can find your Hawaiian Name. To translate given names into Hawaiian names, click here.
"Mako" is the Hawaiian word for "shark". Hawaiians also use the word "mano" for various kinds of sharks, such as Mano kihikihi for hammerhead sharks. One species of shark common in Hawaiian waters as well as being found worldwide is called the "Mako Shark". You are invited to visit the Sharks webpage to read general information and see many photographs regarding the forty plus species of sharks in Hawaiian waters. The sharks in Hawaiian waters pose little threat to human beings. The sharks that have been responsible for the most hazards in Hawaii have been the galapagos sharks, scalloped hammerhead sharks, gray reef sharks and tiger sharks. While great white sharks can be dangerous, they do not frequent Hawaiian waters in great numbers because of their feeding habits. For more info about which shark species are the most aggressive and the most dangerous, more photographs, fascinating facts, shark research, safety tips, suggested reading and links to more shark websites, click, here.
Click above to see dozens of maps, photos and videos of Kilauea Volcano lava fountains, lavafalls, lavastreams, calderas and molten lava creating clouds of steam as it enters the ocean. Also connect to maps of Kilauea Volcano underground activity and Loihi Seamount an active underwater volcano as well as obtain information concerning Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, other volcanoes of Hawaii, the United States and the world.
