Kapolei
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| Nickname : Second City of Oahu | |||
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| Location in Hawaii | |||
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Hawaii | ||
| County : | Honolulu County | ||
| Coordinates : | 21 ° 20 ′ N , 158 ° 5 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time ( UTC − 10 ) | ||
| Residents : | 21,500 (as of 2018) | ||
| Population density : | 2,009.3 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 10.7 km 2 (approx. 4 mi 2 ) of which 10.7 km 2 (approx. 4 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 16 m | ||
| Postal code : | 96707 | ||
| Area code : | +1 808 | ||
| Mayor : | Kirk Caldwell | ||
 Wet 'n' Wild water fun park |
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Kapolei is a census-designated place (CDP) on the island of Oahu in the US state of Hawaii with around 21,500 inhabitants (as of 2018). The place is located in District I of Honolulu County about 40 road kilometers west of Waikīkī on Interstate H-1 . It is the seat of the University of Hawaii-West Oʻahu and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Hawaii, which is also responsible for the US territories of Guam and American Samoa from here . With the Kalaeloa Barbers Point Harbor , Kapolei has the second most important commercial port in O'ahu.
history
The origins of Kapolei can be traced back to the Irishman James Campbell from Londonderry , who hid on a schooner at the age of 13 and sailed to the New World. After a few years in New York, he got hired as a carpenter on a whaling ship and landed in Maui in 1850 , where he became a partner in a sugar factory. After they were sold, he came to Oahu in 1877 and bought 41,000 acres of dry land in the ʻEwa Plain for $ 95,000 . He drilled Hawaii's first artesian well and came across a huge freshwater reservoir, which he used to transform the wasteland into high-yielding sugar cane plantations. Before his death he founded a trust to develop the Ewa Plain into an urban center. The industrial park opened in 1958 and the Standard Oil Company was the first to settle here. In 1977, the Kapolei area was designated an urban development area for future Honolulu population growth by the Honolulu City and County . In 1985 the deep sea port in Barbers Point was completed, in 1990 the city of Kapolei was founded. In the following five years, office buildings, shopping centers, schools, banks, cinemas and the holiday resort opened in Ko Olina. In 1999, Hawaii's first water fun park opened. From 2000, large retail chains such as K-Mart , Home Depot , Costco and Target followed . In 2012, the University of Hawaii opened the West Oahu campus .
Demographics
The 2018 estimate was 21,474 residents, made up of: 38% multiracial, 32.7% Asians, 16.9% native Hawaiians and other Polynesians, 13.6% Hispanics, 10.7% white and 0.8% black. The median household income is $ 98,433 and the per capita income is $ 30,989.
traffic
air traffic
The civil airfield Kalaeloa Airport ( IATA : JRF, ICAO : PHJR) in Kapolei has existed since 1999 , it is also the location of the Naval Air Museum . It emerged from two military predecessors:
- Marine Corps Air Station Ewa ( Barbers Point Naval Air Station ), closed in 1952
- John Rodgers Field , closed before 1999.
It is used by the US Coast Guard , the Hawaii National Guard, and civil aviation.
The airfield was an intermediate and repair station for the crossing of the Pacific with the solar aircraft Solar Impulse 2 for the period up to spring 2016, during its intended circumnavigation.
Elevated railway
East Kapolei is the terminus of a 32-kilometer elevated railway line that is currently under construction, which will lead via the international airport to the bus station at the Ala Moana Center in Honolulu.
Personalities
- Clarissa Chun (* 1981), wrestler
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kapolei CDP, Hawaii data.census.gov , accessed August 22, 2020.
- ↑ Kapolei Kapolei Properties 2014, accessed October 13, 2017.
- ↑ Kalaeloa Barbers Point Harbor Kalaeloa Harbor, accessed October 13, 2017.
- ↑ James Campbell Esq. kapolei.com (PDF), accessed on August 27, 2020 (English)
- ↑ History of Kapolei kapolei.com , accessed on August 27, 2020 (English)
- ↑ Wet'n'Wild Hawaii to-hwaii.com , accessed on August 30, 2020 (English)
- ↑ Kalaeloa Airport Hawaii.gov, accessed October 13, 2017.
- ↑ Public can view solar plane at Kalaeloa Airport on April 2 Star Advertiser, 22- March 2016, accessed on October 13, 2017.
- ↑ Route Map Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation, accessed October 13, 2017.