Kipuka
A Kīpuka (also Dagala ) is a completely isolated vegetation island surrounded by lava on all sides in the middle of a lava field . The word Kīpuka comes from Hawaiian and has spread as a technical term in the English language, in Italian these green islands are called Dagala .
Web links
Commons : Kīpuka - collection of images, videos and audio files
- USGS: Photo Glossary Kipuka (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ian WB Thornton in: "Encyclopedia of Volcanoes". Academic Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-1264-3140-7 , page 1057
- ↑ kīpuka in Hawaiian Dictionaries