50 Things You Did Not Know About Hawaii
Seen as an ideal of the exotic, of some of the most beautiful beaches in the world of parties and white nights, the palm trees and flowered shirts, Hawaii is, however, unknown for most of us. In the same vein, today, will propose a list of 50 things that certainly most of us do not even suspected …
• Hawaii is the most isolated populated group of islands in the world . 3846 miles separate California and Hawaii is 6195 miles between Japan and U.S. islands.
• Hawaii was the last area that European explorers found it and documented it .
• Hawaii is the only U.S. state where coffee is grown .
• Hawaiian archipelago consists of no less than 132 islands and atolls that stretch over a length of 2414 km.
• Hawaii is the 50th state joined the new United States of America . The agreement was ratified on 20 August 1959.
• When, in 1959, Hawaii became, officially, American statesman, his name was Aloha State .
• Native Hawaiian alphabet consists of only 12 letters , 5 vowels (A, E, I, O, U) and 7 consonants (H, K, L, M, N, P and W).
• In Hawaii, there is no ethnic or racial majority. About 30% of the Hawaiian are Caucasian, 40% are Asian, while today only 9% are natives of the total population.
• About 200 of the 680 species of fish live only in the Hawaiian Islands in this part of the world.
• In Hawaii there are no billboards, snakes or seagulls.
• Rabies, or rabies, a disease is completely unknown Hawaiian. There is no evidence of its presence in Hawaii.
• The southernmost point of the United States is in the southern main islands (Big Island) Hawaii. It is South Point.
• Hawaii’s coral reefs is about 70% of all U.S. reefs.
• Hawaii is the only U.S. state where there is no state police force.
• Hawaii is the largest consumer of Spam in the United States of America.
• Hawaii’s name originally was given to the Sandwich Islands. Capital James Cook named the island as in 1778, in honor of his patron, the Earl of Sandwich.
• Name the official fish of Hawaii and the symbol of this state is Humuhumunukunukuapua’a … in short, Humuhumu or fish with rat shot that pig. ” In ancient Hawaiian traditions, each animal on land had to have an equivalent in the water. Humuhumunukunukuapua’a is equivalent pig.
• Hawaii is one of two U.S. states that own interstate highways without having an actual border with another state.
• Hawaii’s flag is there a river Ingur U.S. state flag includes the official flag of Great Britain image.
• Ukulele , miniature guitar each time associated with native Hawaiian, is actually a product made by Portuguese navigators. Ukulele is also translated by “hopping flea,” name given after a man’s hand speed that you need to achieve when playing such an instrument. Locals have likened the gesture, pure and simple, the way a dog has fleas when scratch.
• Hawaiian cowboys, “paiolo” true to their name, they learned to grow and the cattle herds Mane vacarii (vanqueros) Spanish. Paiolo is just a term derived from the word “espanol”
• Not having immunity from diseases brought by Europeans, Native Hawaiian and drastically reduced their number in less than 100 years(between 1799-1890). During this time, the number of native population shrank from 300,000 to only 40,000 inhabitants.
• Hawaiian shirts have appeared in one random fun of the nineteenth century. Catholic missionaries and forced the locals to wear loose shirts to hide the body. Hawaiian, simply pitched them to make them colorful attractive.
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Big Island
It is the largest island in the Hawaiian archipelago, with an area of 6482 square kilometers … more than twice the aggregate area of all other islands in the Hawaiian archipelago.
Kilauea Volcano, located on the Big Island is Earth’s most active volcano. Thanks to Big Island increases its surface approximately 0.16 square kilometers each year.
Big Island is home to what was once the largest private U.S. firm. Parker Ranch is about stretching over an area of 1920 square kilometers.
Mauna Kea is the highest peak of Hawaii’s, with 4207 meters altitude . Yet, measured from the base of which lies on the ocean floor, Mauna Kea would be the planet’s highest peak, with 9100 meters altitude.
In winter, Mauna Kea is the only place that can meet occasionally, snow.
Volcanic National Park in Hawaii is the only objective of this U.S. state located in the UNESCO world heritage.
At Kealakekua Bay there is an area 527 square meters which was ceded to the U.S. England, because the government can finance the country to raise a monument in memory of Captain James Cook.
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Kauai
Kauai Island is the most humid place on Earth. The average annual rainfall is 10 meters.
Kauai is the oldest island in the Hawaiian archipelago , with a venerable age of more than 6 million years.
By law, no building in Kauai can not be taller than a palm environment.
Beach Polihim , in the western part of the island of Kauai, is the largest Hawaiian beach . It has a length of 28 km and a width of 274 meters.
Import of Wyoming, the buffalo have adapted, curiously, the Hawaiian environment. Today, there are numerous wild buffalo living in the Hanalei River Valley Kauai.
Wailua River in Kauai is the only navigable river in all the Hawaiian archipelago.
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Lana’i
Lana’i Island was, until recently, the owner of the largest pineapple plantation in the world . In fact, about 75% of world production of pineapple on the island of Lana’i was made.
On this island there is only a safe city, Lana’i City, situated in the center island.
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Maui
Haleakala, the extinct volcano on the island of Maui, is the largest volcano on Earth like this . Haleakala has a height of 3055 meters and an opening sificient crater big enough to contain all Manhattan.
Street north of the island to Hana in Maui is one of the toughest in the world. With a length of 88.5 km, narrow street has no less than 617 coils and 26 one lane bridges.
Founded in 1831, Maui Lahainaluna High School was the first establishment of its kind built on U.S. soil west of the Rocky Mountains.
Charles Lindbergh , the famous aviator who made a historic record in 1927, he continued to fly in New York on 20-21 May in Paris, is buried in the church cemetery Kipahulu, after his last wish, therefore to find their peace eternal in Maui.
Maui famous temple tree was planted in 1873. Today, it rises to a height of 17 meters and has no less than 12 main trunks. It is so big that it covers an area of 66 square meters, and major events on the island was held under the huge dome.
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Molokai
Ocean cliffs of Molokai are the highest in the world. Some of them rises to almost 920 meters above sea level.
On the island of Molokai and no traffic signs or traffic lights. Also, there was no mall.
Despite its heavenly beauty, Kalaupapa peninsula of Molokai has been transformed in the past, leprosy colony colonsitii by Europeans.
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Oahu
Diamond Head, Oahu Island giant crater was so named by British sailors after they have confused thousands of crystals that protrude from the volcanic cone with genuine diamonds.
The largest permanent U.S. military outpost, Schofield Barracks, is located on the island of Oahu.
Iolani Palace in Honolulu is the only royal palace in the United States of America. It was built in 1882 under King Kalakaua. Moreover, Iolani Palace was equipped with electricity for four years before the White House itself to gain such facilities.
The famous sandy beach of Waikiki, one of the most popular tourist destinations Hawaiian was actually brought on the island of Molokai, from over 64 miles away. The remaining sand was brought from Manhattan Beach, California.
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