Mokuʻauia

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Mokuʻauia
Aerial view of Mokuʻauia
Aerial view of Mokuʻauia
Waters Pacific Ocean
Archipelago Hawaii
Geographical location 21 ° 39 '47 "  N , 157 ° 55' 22"  W Coordinates: 21 ° 39 '47 "  N , 157 ° 55' 22"  W.
Mokuʻauia (Hawaii)
Mokuʻauia
length 500 m
width 330 m
surface 5.3 ha
Highest elevation 6  m
Residents uninhabited

Mokuʻauia (also Moku ʻAuia or English Goat Island , "goat island" called) is a flat, uninhabited island in the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean . It is located on the edge of Lāie Bay about two hundred meters off the northeast coast of the island of Oahu and administratively belongs to Honolulu County .

The island is a maximum of 6 m high, surrounded by coral reefs , 500 m long, up to 330 m wide and has an area of ​​5.3  ha (0.053 km²). The island, which consists mainly of limestone , is an important breeding area for the wedge-tailed shearwater ( Puffinus pacificus , Hawaiian ʻuaʻu kani or hōʻio ) with over 6500 specimens . Mokuʻauia is therefore, like many other small islands in Hawaii, a Hawaiʻi State Seabird Sanctuary ( bird sanctuary ) and may not be entered. Since the flat island is regularly exposed to the saltwater spray, only a few indigenous plants can be found there , including the rare and endangered Sesbania tomentosa , Hawaiian: ʻ , hai , a species of the butterfly family .

  • Views

  • Mokuʻauia's coast, in the background the island of Oʻahu

  • Seabird sanctuary billboard

  • Mokuʻauia seen from Oʻahu

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hōʻio in Hawaiian Dictionaries , ʻuaʻu kani in Hawaiian Dictionaries
  2. ↑ ʻōhai in Hawaiian Dictionaries