Kipuka

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An island of vegetation on Kilauea

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ian WB Thornton in: "Encyclopedia of Volcanoes". Academic Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-1264-3140-7 , page 1057
  2. ↑ kīpuka in Hawaiian Dictionaries