November 15, 2023
Ancient Hawaiian fishponds are a good example of aquaculture at its finest. Hawaiians are the only Polynesians known to harness the ocean’s bounty using brackish-water ponds near the ocean for stocking and harvesting fidsh. The system allowed Hawaiians to control…
November 15, 2023
King Kalākaua built ‘ IOLANI PALACE to enhance the prestige of Hawai‘i overseas and to mark Hawai‘i’s status as a modern nation. Today, ‘Iolani Palace remains the only palace to have housed ruling royalty in the United States. In August…
November 15, 2023
QUEEN EMMA’S SUMMER PALACE is an airy, colonnaded New England-style house of simple and practical design. Known as Hānaiakamalama, the palace is named for a demigoddess who was a foster child of the moon. The house became a summer retreat…
February 10, 2022
HAWAIIAN MISSION HOUSES HISTORIC SITE & ARCHIVES is the site of the oldest structures in Honolulu and serves as a link to an era of significant cultural change on the islands. Missionaries from New England began to arrive in 1820…
February 10, 2022
The chiseled KO‘OLAU MOUNTAINS , covered in a carpet of multitextured green, form a fidtting backdrop for VALLEY OF THE TEMPLES MEMORIAL PARK . Located near Kāne‘ohe, the park is dominated by a majestic BYODO-IN TEMPLE , a replica of…
February 10, 2022
The late tobacco heiress and philanthropist DORIS DUKE devoted many years of her life to collecting Islamic art, which she housed in her Diamond Head estate on O‘ahu. When she died, Duke willed a large share of her estate to…
February 10, 2022
Seeing as Hawai‘i is a group of islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, it follows that it would be greatly affected by the advent of aviation. At PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM , which was named “One of the…
February 10, 2022
Its striking black granite walls symbolize the massive hull of the formidable battleship it memorializes. The white marble standards represent the heroes who manned the USS OKLAHOMA , and are dedicated to the 429 sailors and marines who lost their…
January 15, 2015
HAWAIIAN MISSION HOUSES HISTORIC SITE & ARCHIVES is the site of the oldest structures in Honolulu and serves as a link to an era of signifi cant cultural change on the islands. Missionaries from New England began to arrive in…
January 15, 2015
The tiny community of Kalaupapa on the island of Moloka‘i is widely known as the site of Hawai‘i’s former leprosy colony. The fidrst leprosy patients were shipped to Kalaupapa in early 1866; seven years later, in 1873, a Catholic missionary…
January 15, 2015
O‘ahu’s coastal waters serve as the fidnal resting place for a number of SHIPWRECKED NAVY VESSELS and downed fidghter planes. MAHI WAI‘ANAE , a 165-foot U.S. Navy minesweeper, was built in 1939 for WWII service. It can be found 90…
January 15, 2015
Not a lot of people know what it’s like to live underwater in a “steel pipe,” particularly with a heavily armed enemy on your tail. To get a glimpse of combat submarine life, visit the USS BOWFIN SUBMARINE MUSEUM AND…