Lana'i

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Lana'i
Satellite image of Lānaʻi
Satellite image of Lānaʻi
Waters Pacific Ocean
Archipelago Hawaii
Geographical location 20 ° 50 ′  N , 156 ° 56 ′  W Coordinates: 20 ° 50 ′  N , 156 ° 56 ′  W
Location of Lānaʻi
length 29 km
width 21 km
surface 364 km²
Highest elevation Lānaʻihale
1030  m
Residents 3193 (2000)
8.8 inhabitants / km²
main place Lanai City
View of Lānaʻi City
View of Lānaʻi City

Lānaʻi ( German : Lanai , Lānaʻi in the Geographic Names Information System ) is one of the eight volcanic Hawaiian main islands. In the Hawaiian language , the name probably means "day (of) conquest". The island is 29 km long and up to 21 km wide. The area covers 364 km². The highest point is the 1030 m high Lānaʻihale in the southeast of the island. It only has around 3200 inhabitants and consists of a high plateau. For a long time Lānaʻi was the largest pineapple plantation in the world, but pineapple production ended in 1992. Land that is not used for agriculture is natural.

Administratively, Lānaʻi belongs to Maui County .

history

It was not until 1400 that the Hawaiians settled this island. Later came white missionaries and Chinese, who introduced sugar cane cultivation around 1802 . In 1854, around 300 Mormons moved to the island and established a colony they named the City of Joseph in the Valley of Ephraim . From 1861 they were led by Walter Murray Gibson , who bought almost the entire island with the money of the church, but issued the titles in his name. After the church found out, he was excommunicated but was able to keep the land.

In 1922, "Pineapple King" James Dole bought the island as President of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (later Dole Food Company ) for $ 1.1 million and made it the "Pineapple Island". In 1992 Dole stopped growing pineapples on Lānaʻi due to high production costs. Today there is almost exclusively cattle breeding and farming. In June 2012, Larry Ellison bought 98% of the island from Castle & Cookes for $ 300 million.

Traditionally Lānaʻi was divided into 13 ahupuaʻa , which were grouped into two districts (moku o loko) : kona ( Lee ) and koʻolau ( Luv ). The ahupuaʻa are reproduced below, in clockwise order, and with original area data in acres , starting in the northwest of the island:

No. Ahupuaʻa Area
acres 		Area
km²		 most densely
's population
1 Ka'a 19468 78.78 207
2 Paomaʻi 9078 36.74 147
3 Mahana 7973 32.27 1
4th Maunalei 3794 15.35 0
5 Kalulu 6078 24.60 1
6th Kaunolu 7860 31.81 3
7th Palawai 5897 23.86 1
8th Pavili 1930 7.81 0
9 Ka'ohai 9677 39.16 1
10 Kama'o 2751 11.13 2
11 Keālia Aupuni 5897 23.86 2
12 Keālia Kapu 1829 7.40 1
13 Kamoku 8291 33.55 2804
  Lana'i 90523 366.33 3170
Map from 1878 with traditional structure in Ahupuaʻa

Kamoku is the ahupuaʻa with by far the largest population, as most of Lanaʻi City is in it. Parts of Lanaʻi City also extend to Kaa and Paomai. The remaining ahupuaʻa are largely uninhabited today. According to the 2000 census, Lana'i City comprised 99 percent of the island's population (3164 of 3193). As a census-designated place , Lana'i City is only defined for statistical purposes and not by administrative boundaries.

tourism

The former pineapple island has not yet developed into a holiday destination, but it is a popular day trip destination from Maui .

View of the Garden of the Gods

Mainly golfers and hikers ( Munro Trail , 12.7 km long) populate the island during the main travel times. In the hinterland you will find ancient Hawaiian ruins. Another attraction is the Garden of the Gods ("Garden of the Gods"), a labyrinth of red lava rocks and many oddly shaped stones in the west of the island.

The small main town of Lānaʻi City is around 500 m above sea level, in the middle of the island, in the refreshingly cool highlands at the foot of a mountain range. Since 1920, Norfolk firs (Araucaria heterophylla) have been planted as wind protection in and around the town . 7th Street and 8th Street are the main streets with a few shops, the supermarket and a cinema, on 9th Street is the public swimming pool.

beaches

The most beautiful bathing beach is the protected Hulopoʻe Beach on the south coast of Lānaʻi. It is only a few minutes' walk from the small Mānele Harbor, where the ferry from Maui docks. It is the only beach on the island that is equipped with toilets and showers. Along the northern coast from Kūāhua to Awalua there is a series of sandy beaches for 13 kilometers with a reef in front of them. They are collectively known as Shipwreck Beach because of a ship that has been stuck on the reef since 1943. The lonely, but mostly very windy Polihua Beach on the northwest coast allows an undisturbed view of the island of Molokaʻi and can only be reached on foot or by four-wheel drive vehicle.

Sports

The biggest sporting event is the Maui Canal Swim , which has been held annually since 1972 , where teams of six swimmers each have the longest open-water relay swim in the world from the Club Lanai Pier on Lānaʻi for 9.9 miles (approx Kilometers) away from Kāʻanapali Beach on Maui.

health care

There is a 24-bed hospital in Lānaʻi City, the Lānaʻi Community Hospital, and a health center, the Lānaʻi Community Health Center, which also offers dental, psychological and other specialist treatments.

Sons and daughters (selection)

Web links

Commons : Lānaʻi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lānaʻi in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
  2. ^ Lānaʻi in Hawaiian Dictionaries
  3. ↑ 9 Crazy Facts About Larry Ellison's Hawaiian Island Business Insider, October 24, 2014. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
  4. ↑ Larry Ellison Bought on Island in Hawaii. Now what? New York Times, October 23, 2014. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
  5. ↑ Hawaii Pineapple: The Rise and Fall of an Industry Hort Science. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
  6. ^ Billionaire Larry Ellison paid $ 300 million. . Retrieved June 28, 2017.
  7. ^ Oracle's Ellison is buying a Hawaiian island
  8. ↑ Chris Taylor: Larry Ellison Buys Sixth Largest Hawaiian Island . Mashable . June 20, 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
  9. ^ District in Hawaiian Dictionaries
  10. ^ Kona in Hawaiian Dictionaries
  11. ↑ koʻolau in Hawaiian Dictionaries
  12. ↑ The Mahele Aina on Lanai, About Hawaiian Land Management and Land Tenure ( Memento from September 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  13. ↑ city-data.com
  14. ↑ ka'a in Hawaiian Dictionaries
  15. ↑ Paoma'i in Hawaiian Dictionaries
  16. ↑ Hulopoʻe in Place Names of Hawaiʻi
  17. ↑ Mānele in Place Names of Hawaiʻi
  18. ↑ Kūāhua in Place Names of Hawaiʻi
  19. ^ Hawaii Coastline University of Hawaii. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
  20. ↑ Lanai Beaches . Retrieved July 1, 2017.
  21. ^ Maui Channel Swim . Retrieved June 27, 2017.
  22. ^ Taking the Maui Channel Swim Challenge . Retrieved June 27, 2017.
  23. ^ Maui Channel Swim History . Retrieved June 28, 2017.
  24. ^ Lanai Community Hospital
  25. ^ Lanai Community Health Center