Maui Coast Hotel
Hotels in the Maui coast are often required for tourists who require accommodation on the island. Some may want to see the culture, history, entertainment, tourist attractions and scenery of the region. Some may want a hotel that has good views and good scenery. Some may want a hotel that had a good reputation and good prices. Some may want a hotel that has good views. Some may want a hotel near the coast so they can see the coastal regions of the island. Some may want to tour the coast on boat or go diving or see the coastal regions of the island. They may want to do water sports are the region.
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The island of Ma-ui or Maui is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands at 727.2 square miles and is the 17th largest island in the United States. Maui is part of the state of Hawaii and is the largest island in Maui County. Three other islands, Lanai, Kahoolawe, and Molokai, also belong to Maui County.
Native
Hawaiian tradition gives the origin of the island's name in the legend of Hawai?iloa,
the Polynesian navigator attributed with discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. The
story relates how he named the island of Maui after his son who in turn was named
for the demigod Ma-ui. According to legend, the demigod Ma-ui raised all the Hawaiian
Islands from the sea. The Island of Maui is also called the "Valley Isle"
for the large fertile isthmus between its two volcanoes.
Polynesians, from Tahiti and the Marquesas, were the original peoples to populate Maui. The Tahitians introduced the kapu system, a strict social order that affected all aspects of life and became the core of Hawaiian culture. Modern Hawaiian history began in the mid-1700s. King Kamehameha I took up residence (and later made his capital) in La-haina- after conquering Maui in 1790, during the bloody Battle of Kepaniwai.
On November 26, 1778 Captain Cook became the first European explorer to see Maui. Cook never set foot on the island because he was unable to find a suitable landing. The first European to visit Maui was the French admiral Jean François de Galaup de La Pérouse, who landed on the shores of what is now known as La Perouse Bay on May 29, 1786. More Europeans followed: traders, whalers, loggers (e.g., of sandalwood) and missionaries. The missionaries began to arrive from New England in 1823, choosing La-haina- because it was the capital. They clothed the natives, banned them from dancing hula, and greatly altered the culture. They tried to keep whalers and sailors out of the bawdy houses. The missionaries taught reading and writing, created the 12 letter Hawaiian alphabet, started a printing press in La-haina-, and began writing the islands' history, which until then existed only as oral accounts. Ironically, the work of the missionaries both altered and preserved the native culture. The religious work altered the culture while the literacy efforts preserved native history and language for posterity. They started the first school in La-haina-, which still exists today: La-haina-luna Mission School. The Mission school opened in 1831 and was the first secondary school to open west of the Rocky Mountains.
At the height of the whaling era (1843-1860), La-haina- was a major whaling center with anchorage in La-haina- Roads; in one season over 400 ships visited La-haina- and the greatest number of ships berthed at one time was about 100. A given ship tended to stay several weeks rather than days which explains the drinking and prostitution in the town at that time. Whaling declined steeply at the end of the 19th century as crude oil (petroleum) replaced whale oil.
Kamehameha's descendants reigned in the islands until 1872. They were followed by rulers from another ancient family of chiefs, including Queen Liliuokalani who ruled in 1893 when the monarchy was overthrown. One year later, the Republic of Hawaii was founded. The island was annexed by the United States in 1898 and made a territory in 1900. Hawaii became the 50th U.S. state in 1959.
The Vibora Luviminda trades union conducted the last labor strike of an ethnic nature in the Hawaiian Islands against four Maui sugar plantations in 1937, demanding higher wages and dismissal of five foremen. Manuel Fagel and nine other strike leaders were arrested, charged with kidnapping a worker. Fagel spent four months in jail while the strike continued. Eventually, Vibora Luviminda made its point and the workers won a 15% increase in wages after 85 days on strike, but there was no written contract signed.
Maui was centrally involved in the Pacific Theatre of World War II as a staging center, training base, and for rest and relaxation. At the peak in 1943-44, the number of troops stationed on Maui exceeded 100,000. The main base of the 4th Marines was in Haiku. Beaches (e.g., in Ki-hei) were used for practice landings and training in marine demolition and sabotage.
Maui's
wide variety of landscapes have resulted from a unique combination of geology,
topography, and climate. Each volcanic cone in the chain of the Hawaiian Islands
is built of dark, iron-rich/quartz-poor rocks, which poured out of thousands of
vents as highly fluid lava, over a period of millions of years. Several of the
volcanoes were close enough to each other that lava flows on their flanks overlapped
one another, causing several volcanoes to merge into a single island. Maui is
such a "volcanic doublet", formed from two shield volcanoes that overlapped
one another to form an isthmus between them.
Looking into Haleakala Crater
The older, western volcano has been eroded considerably and is cut by numerous drainages, forming the peaks of the West Maui Mountains (in Hawaiian Mauna Kahalawai). Pu'u Kukui is the highest of the peaks at 5,788 feet. The larger, younger volcano to the east, Haleakala, rises to more than 10,000 feet (3,050 m) above sea level, but measures five miles (8 km) from seafloor to summit. The eastern flanks of both volcanoes are cut by deeply incised valleys and steep-sided ravines that run downslope to the rocky, windswept shoreline. The valley-like Isthmus of Maui that separates the two volcanic masses was formed by recent lava flows and erosion of material from the steep slopes of the volcanoes. This prominent topographic feature is the reason why Maui is known as "The Valley Isle".
La Perouse Bay is located south of the town of Wailea-Makena, Hawaii at the end of Makena Alanui Road (State Highway 31) The bay's Hawaiian name is Keoneoio. It was later named for the French explorer Captain Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse. In 1786, La Pérouse surveyed and mapped the prominent embayment near the southern cape of Maui opposite the island of Kaho'olawe. The bay is the site of Maui's most recent volcanic activity. The rounded peninsula that dominates the northern half of the bay and extends up the coast a short distance was formed about 900,000 years ago by an eruption of basaltic lava that originated in the southernmost landward expression of the Haleakala Southwest Rift Zone. A small string of cinder cones extending inland to the northeast marks the axis of the rift zone.
Maui is a leading whale-watching center in the Hawaiian Islands due to Humpback whales wintering in the sheltered ?Au?au Channel between the islands of Maui county. The whales migrate approximately 3,500 miles (5,600 km) from Alaskan waters each autumn and spend the northern hemisphere winter months mating and birthing in the warm waters off Maui.
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