Oahu, also known as The Gathering Place, is the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands. It is home to roughly one million people—over two-thirds of the population of the U.S. state of Hawaii. The island of O’ahu and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands constitute the City and County of Honolulu. The state capital, Honolulu, is on Oʻahu's southeast coast. Oʻahu had a population of 995,638 according to 2022 U.S. census estimates, up from 953,207 in 2010.
Interstate H-3 is an Interstate Highway located entirely within the US state of Hawaii on the island of Oʻahu. H-3 is also known as the John A. Burns Freeway, after the second governor of Hawaii. It crosses the Koʻolau Range along several viaducts and through the 5,165-foot-long (1,574 m) Tetsuo Harano Tunnels as well as the much smaller Hospital Rock Tunnels.
Ahuimanu or ʻĀhuimanu is a census-designated place (CDP) in the City & County of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, on the island of Oahu. In Hawaiian ʻāhui-manu means "cluster of birds".
Kāneʻohe is a census-designated place (CDP) included in the City and County of Honolulu and in Hawaiʻi state District of Koʻolaupoko on the island of Oʻahu. In the Hawaiian language, kāne ʻohe means "bamboo man". According to an ancient Hawaiian story, a local woman compared her husband's cruelty to the sharp edge of cutting bamboo; thus the place was named Kāneʻohe or "bamboo man".
Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH), formerly Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay and originally Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay, is a U.S. Marine Corps facility and air station located on the Mokapu Peninsula of windward O'ahu in the City & County of Honolulu. Marine Corps Base Hawaii is home to Marines, Sailors, their family members, and civilian employees. The United States Marine Corps operates a 7,800-foot (2,400 m) runway at the base.
Paula Aiko Nakayama is an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court from 1993 to 2023. After Rhoda V. Lewis, Nakayama is second woman to ever serve on the Hawaii State Supreme Court. She is also the first Asian American woman to serve as a state supreme court justice nationwide. Currently serving her third term, Nakayama served her first term from 1993 to 2003 and her second term from 2003 to 2013.
James Bicknell Castle High School, more commonly James B. Castle High School or simply Castle High School, is a public coeducational high school located in Kāneʻohe CDP, City and County of Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. The school serves grades 9 through 12 and has an enrollment of around 1150 students. The school is part of the Windward Oʻahu Subdistrict of the Hawaii Department of Education.
For the Wikipedia article concerning Hawaii's environment, see Environment of Hawaii
Environment Hawaii is a monthly newsletter published in Hilo, Hawaii. It focuses on investigative reporting about Hawaii's environment. The newsletter made its debut in July 1990, co-founded by Andria Benner, Patricia Tummons, and Marjorie Ziegler.
Mary Abigail Kawenaʻulaokalaniahiʻiakaikapoliopele Naleilehuaapele Wiggin Pukui, known as Kawena, was a Hawaiian scholar, author, composer, hula expert, and educator.
The Harold K.L. Castle Foundation it is the largest private foundation headquartered in the State of Hawaii.
This is a list of properties and districts on the Hawaiian island of Oahu that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Oahu is the only major island in Honolulu County. The location of the city of Honolulu, Oahu is the most populous island in the state. There are 168 properties and districts on the island, including 16 National Historic Landmarks. Three formerly listed sites were demolished and have been removed from the Register.
Charles Coffin Harris (1822–1881) was a New England lawyer who became a politician and judge in the Kingdom of Hawaii who firmly supported the monarchy as an independent nation. After serving in a number of cabinet posts, he became chief justice of the supreme court.
The Hawaii Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement (DOCARE) and also known as the Hawaii DLNR Police, is the law enforcement agency for the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources. It is tasked with full state police powers to enforces all State laws and Department rules, with primary jurisdiction involving State lands, State Parks, historical sites, forest reserves, aquatic life and wildlife areas, coastal zones, Conservation districts, State shores, as well as county ordinances involving county parks, for enforcing Hawaii's fishing and recreational boating laws and protecting reefs and other marine resources, patrolling harbors and coastal areas, and conducting marijuana eradication missions.
For the state pageant affiliated with Miss Teen USA, see Miss Hawaii Teen USA
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Hawaii were held on November 8, 2022, to elect the two U.S. representatives from the state of Hawaii, one from each of the state's two congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
Denise Mahealani Cypher DeCosta is a historian, community advocate, Hawaiian cultural practitioner, and owner of Native Knowledge LLC. Cypher was a former president of the Oʻahu Association of Hawaiian Civic Club, and the Koʻolaupoko Hawaiian Civic Club. She is a born and raised kamaʻāina of Kāneʻohe and has authored Distinguished Kamaʻāina of Kāneʻohe Bay Koʻolaupoko II (2017). Of her recognitions she was awarded the Frank Haines Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Hawaiʻi Historic Foundation (2019). She has helped to create the Ahupuaʻa Boundary Marker project on the island of Oʻahu, and is renowned for her advocacy on the windward side, in particular for native rights, prevention of urban sprawl, and her opposition to the construction of the Interstate Highway known as the H-3.
Roberta Kuʻulei Keakealani is an educator, cultural practitioner, poet, storyteller, and activist from a paniolo family from Puʻuanahulu, North Kona, Hawaii. She was a director of Ahahui O Puʻu Waʻawaʻa, a member of the Puʻu Waʻawaʻa Advisory Council in consultation with the Department of Land and Natural Resources, and the president of Hui ʻOhana Mai Puʻu Anahulu A Me Puʻu Waʻawaʻa. Keakealani is the cultural and educational director of Hui Aloha Kīholo and the Director of Ka Pilina Poina ʻOle which are heavily involved in restoration and conservation work in Kona. She is also the Native Hawaiian Community Representative Director at the Kaʻūpūlehu Foundation. She was involved with the creation of the Hawaiian language immersion preschool Pūnana Leo o Waimea and the early childhood program Mālamapōki‘i. She wrote RK Branding Day and articles in Ke Ola Magazine, and directed the short films The Paniolo Way, Last of the Hawaiian Cowboys, and Ka Nohona Makamaeo nā Paniolo: The Treasured Lifestyle of the Paniolo.
Ruth Leilani Stemmermann, also known as LaniStemmermann, was an assistant professor of plant ecology, biology and environmental science at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) and Hawaiʻi Community College in Hilo. Stemmermann was a botanist dedicated to the research and preservation of Hawai'i's vegetation, chiefly known for her triumph in a lawsuit against the U.S. Army to protect native plants in the Pohakuloa Training Area. In 1990, Stemmermann collaborated with Stanford University and became the co-principal of the National Science Foundation project known as the "Ecosystem Dynamics in Hawaiʻi" which allowed her to establish a Common Garden to study the native rainforest trees, now known as the Stemmermann Common Garden.
Lindsay Young is an avian conservation biologist who has published over 110 journal articles and technical reports on Pacific Seabirds. She is currently Senior Scientist and Executive Director of the Pacific Rim Conservation, a nonprofit, research-based organization that works to restore native seabird populations and ecosystems. She is also the current chair of the World Seabird Union. Young has also served as treasurer for the Pacific Seabird Group, as chair for the North Pacific Albatross Working Group, and as correspondent for the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels.
