Niʻihau (Hawaiian: [ˈniʔiˈhɐw]), anglicized as Niihau (/ˈniː(i)haʊ/ NEE-(ee-)how), is the westernmost main and seventh largest inhabited island in Hawaii...
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The Niʻihau incident occurred on December 7–13, 1941, when the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service pilot Shigenori Nishikaichi (西開地 重徳, Nishikaichi Shigenori)...
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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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Keith Robinson (environmentalist) (redirect from Keith Robinson (Niihau owner))
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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Elizabeth Sinclair (category Niihau)
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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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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Hawaiian language (section Niʻihau)
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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show 你好,李焕英 or Hi, Mom, a 2021 Chinese comedy film Neoma (disambiguation) Niihau, a Hawaiian island My Huckleberry Friends (Chinese: 你好,旧时光), 2017 Chinese...
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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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Puʻuwai, Hawaii (category Populated places on Niihau)
the island of Niʻihau. It is at the western coast of the small island, and Native Hawaiians who live in this village speak the Niihau dialect of the...
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Panicum niihauense (redirect from Niihau panicgrass)
'ehu and Niihau panicgrass. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it has been found on the islands of Niihau and Kauai. It has not been observed on Niihau since...
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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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List of beaches in Hawaii (redirect from List of beaches in Niihau)
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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Although the King soon died, the family purchased the entire island of Niʻihau from King Kamehameha V for US$10,000 ($195,000 today) on January 23, 1864...
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not unified until King Kaumualiʻi surrendered the islands of Kauai and Niihau in 1810. Kamehameha III moved his capital from Lahaina, Maui to Honolulu...
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Lobelia niihauensis (redirect from Niihau lobelia)
Lobelia niihauensis, commonly known as the Niihau lobelia, is a rare species of flowering plant in the bellflower family that is endemic to Hawaii. It...
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Attack on Pearl Harbor (section Niihau Incident)
patrolled the area between the Japanese carrier force (the Kidō Butai) and Niihau, to detect any counterattack. Fleet submarines I-16, I-18, I-20, I-22, and...
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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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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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(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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1913 – October 29, 2001) was an American reporter and author who wrote The Niihau Incident, Crisis: The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor and Southeast Asia...
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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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/ 21.9692823; -159.7111523 Niihau School of Kekaha (NSK, Hawaiian: Hale Kula Niihau o Kekaha), also known as Ke Kula Niihau O Kekaha Learning Center (KKNOK)...
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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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More than 370 listings appear on all but one of Hawaii's main islands (Niihau being the exception) and the Northwestern Islands, and in all of its five...
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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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Lehua (category Niihau)
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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Mākaha Sons (redirect from Makaha Sons of Niʻihau)
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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Ni'ihau High and Elementary School (redirect from Niihau High and Elementary)
-160.20095 Ni'ihau High & Elementary School or Niihau Island School is a public K-12 school in Niihau, Hawaii, United States. It is operated by the Hawaii...
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the Hawaiian Islands were fully unified when the islands of Kauaʻi and Niʻihau voluntarily joined the Hawaiian Kingdom. Two major dynastic families ruled...
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