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    Niihau (redirect from Niʻihau)
    Kamehameha I, Niʻihau was ruled by the aliʻi. Kahelelani was the first of the Niʻihau aliʻi. His name is now used to refer to the Niʻihau kahelelani, the...
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    the Hawaiian island of Niʻihau after participating in the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Imperial Japanese Navy had designated Niʻihau as an uninhabited island...
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  • Keith Robinson is an American environmentalist who is the co-owner of Niʻihau, the second-smallest of the eight principal Hawaiian Islands. Keith Robinson...
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    Niʻihau dialect (Standard Hawaiian: ʻŌlelo Niʻihau, Niʻihau: Olelo Matuahine, lit. 'mother tongue') is a dialect of the Hawaiian language spoken on the...
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    the matriarch of the Sinclair family that bought the Hawaiian island of Niʻihau in 1864. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, she married Francis Sinclair, a ship's...
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  • English, but on Niʻihau, native speakers of Hawaiian have remained fairly isolated and have continued to use Hawaiian almost exclusively. Niʻihau is the only...
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  • is limited to Niʻihau residents; only official visitors and invited guests are permitted. Puʻuwai has a one-room schoolhouse. Niʻihau is located about...
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  • by location. Some of the beaches found in Kauai are: For the beaches on Niʻihau, Clark lists 12 major beaches while Tava and Keale list 46—some of which...
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    Niʻihau being the westernmost island with a population of around 130 natives, no one else is allowed on the island. All the islands west of Niʻihau—those...
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  • The Mākaha Sons (formerly The Mākaha Sons of Niʻihau) is a musical group in Hawaii, first formed in 1976 on the island of Oahu. The original members of...
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    County, which also includes the small nearby islands of Kaʻula, Lehua, and Niʻihau. Hawaiian narrative derives the name's origin from the legend of Hawaiʻiloa...
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  • of Niʻihau. It has an elevation of 1,289 feet (393 meters), thus making it Niʻihau's highest point. In addition to forming the island of Niʻihau, one...
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    crescent-shaped island in the Hawaiian Islands, 0.7 miles (1.1 km) north of Niʻihau, 18 miles due west of Kauaʻi and is an uninhabited, 285-acre (1.15 km2)...
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    descendants have kept the tradition of treating Niʻihau as private, earning it the name "Forbidden Island". Niʻihau was owned by Lester's wife Helen Matthew...
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  • Sons of Niʻihau recorded No Kristo in 1976 and released several more albums, including Hoʻoluana, Kahea O Keale, Keala, Makaha Sons of Niʻihau and Mahalo...
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  • 21°54′06″N 160°12′03″W / 21.90170°N 160.20095°W / 21.90170; -160.20095 Ni'ihau High & Elementary School or Niihau Island School is a public K-12 school...
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  • Baptist High School, ʻEwa Beach Le Jardin Academy, Kailua Niʻihau High & Elementary School, Niʻihau Kapaʻa High School, Kapaʻa Kauaʻi High School, Līhuʻe...
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    Century Public Charter School Ke Kula Niʻihau O Kekaha Learning Center Kula Aupuni Niʻihau A Kahelelani Aloha Ni'ihau High & Elementary There are four private...
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    (1888–1967) was an owner of a large ranch that encompassed the island of Niʻihau in the Hawaiian Islands. Aylmer Francis Robinson was born May 6, 1888,...
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    last independent aliʻi nui (supreme ruler of the island) of Kauaʻi and Niʻihau before becoming a vassal of Kamehameha I within the unified Kingdom of...
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    Chiefess Kekaulike Kinoiki was the daughter of the last king of Kauaʻi and Niʻihau Kaumualiʻi. She was the granddaughter of Kaneoneo, who attempted to take...
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    Mokuʻumeʻume Molokini Nā Mokulua Partial islands, atolls, reefs—those west of Niʻihau are uninhabited except Midway Atoll—form the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands...
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    It is located 23 mi (20 nmi; 37 km) west-southwest of Kawaihoa Point on Niʻihau, and about 150 nmi (173 mi; 278 km) west of Honolulu. The island is the...
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    to the northeast of the state. The hurricane devastated the islands of Niʻihau, Kauaʻi, and Oʻahu with wind gusts exceeding 100 mph (160 km/h) and rough...
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    moluccanus) Kauaʻi: purple, mokihana (Melicope anisata) Niʻihau: white, pūpū o Niʻihau (Niʻihau shells) The old custom for welcoming guests in the Philippines...
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    miles (1,210 km). The eight main islands, from northwest to southeast, are Niʻihau, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Kahoʻolawe, Maui, and Hawaiʻi, after...
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    peaceful surrender, Kauaʻi and Niʻihau joined the kingdom. Kamehameha II assumed de facto control of Kauaʻi and Niʻihau when he kidnapped Kaumualiʻi, ending...
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  • Haleakalā Molokini West Maui Mountains Iao Valley Molokaʻi Kalaupapa Peninsula Niʻihau Lehua Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Nihoa (Moku Manu) Necker Island (Mokumanamana)...
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    Oʻahu, Maui, Molokaʻi, and Lānaʻi to form the kingdom. In 1810, Kauaʻi and Niʻihau joined the Kingdom, the last inhabited islands to do so. The Kingdom received...
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    Lake is an ephemeral lake in the south central region of the island of Niʻihau. During the rainy seasons, it becomes the largest lake in the Hawaiian...
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