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The Hawaiian Islands are an archipelago of 19 islands and atolls, numerous smaller islets, and undersea seamounts in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some 1,500 miles (2,400 km) from the Island of Hawaii in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll. Excluding Midway, which is an unincorporated territory of the United States, the Hawaiian Islands form the U.S. State of Hawaii. Once known as the Sandwich Islands, the archipelago takes its name from the largest island in the group.
The Island of Hawai?i is built from five separate shield volcanoes that erupted somewhat sequentially, one overlapping the other. These are (from oldest to youngest):
* Kohala (extinct),
* Mauna Kea (dormant),
* Huala-lai (dormant),
* Mauna Loa (active, partly within Hawai?i Volcanoes
National Park), and
* Ki-lauea (very active; part of Hawai?i Volcanoes National
Park).
Interpretation of geological evidence from exposures of old surfaces
on the south and west flanks of Mauna Loa led to the proposal that two ancient
volcanic shields (named Ninole and Kulani) were all but buried by the younger
Mauna Loa.[1] Geologists now consider these "outcrops" to be part of
the earlier building of Mauna Loa.
View north from upslope Kohala showing Haleakala-,
Maui in the distance
In greatest dimension, the island is 93 miles (150 km) across and has a land area of 4,028.0 square miles (10,432.5 km²),[2] representing 62% of the total land area of the Hawaiian Islands. Measured from its base at the sea floor, to its highest peak, Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain in the world, even taller than Mount Everest, according to the Guinness Book of Records. Traditionally, Hawai?i is known as the Big Island because it is the largest of the Hawaiian Islands and also to ease confusion between Hawai?i Island and Hawai?i State.
Because Mauna Loa and Ki-lauea are active volcanoes, the
island of Hawai?i is still growing. Between January 1983 and September 2002, 543
acres (220 ha) of land were added to the island by lava flows from Ki-lauea volcano
extending the coastline seaward. Several towns have been destroyed by Ki-lauea
lava flows in modern times: Kapoho (1960), Kalapana (1990), and Kaimu- (1990).
A large fresh water pool, in a deep L-shaped crack in the Kalapana area, well
known on the Big Island as Queen's Bath, was flowed over by lava in 1987.
Steam
plume as Ki-lauea red lava enters the ocean at three Waikupanaha and one Ki lava
ocean entries. Some surface lava is seen too. The image was taken 04/16/08.
Hawai?i is the southernmost island in the Hawaiian archipelago, and contains the southernmost point in the United States, (Ka Lae). The nearest landfall to the south would be in the Line Islands. To the north is the island of Maui, where East Maui Volcano (Haleakala-) is visible across the Alenuiha-ha- Channel.
18 miles (29 kilometers) off Hawai?i Island's southeast coast is the undersea volcano known as Lo-ihi. Lo-ihi is an actively erupting seamount that lies 3,200 feet (975 m) below the surface of the ocean. It is thought that continued volcanic activity from Lo-ihi will cause the volcano to eventually breach sea level and later attach at the surface onto Ki-lauea, adding even more land to Hawaii's surface area. This event is presently predicted for a date several tens of thousands of years in the future.
Hilina
Slump or the Great Crack is an 8-mile long, 60 feet wide and 60 feet deep crack
in the island, situated in the district of Ka?u-. The Great Crack is one of many
series of cracks and rifts that were formed by eruptions and, in fact, is an extension
of the southwest rift zone. Often these rifts are the sites of volcanic eruptions
and occasionally a rift can be so deep and so fractured that it can cause a chunk
of the island to fall into the ocean.
Some believe that the Great Crack is a result of the south flank of the Big Island moving away from the rest of the island. Speculation abounds that some day, perhaps soon, a major chunk of the island will break away and fall into the ocean, resulting in turn in a huge tsunami and earthquake. This actually does happen every ten thousand years or so, so it is not outside the realm of possibility. Others believe the Great Crack is not a fault that will break the island apart, but instead was created (probably thousands of years ago) as a result of the crust moving apart slightly due to magma forcing itself into the rift zones. The Great Crack has been measured and is tracked and there is no indication that it is enlarging in any way or that the island is shifting near this point. Furthermore, the walls of the crack have been shown to fit together perfectly, thus proving that the crack was a widening of once joined ground.
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