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The Hawaiʻi State Library is a historic building in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, that serves as the seat of the Hawaiʻi State Public Library System, the only statewide library system and one of the largest in the United States.
The Hawaii State Public Library System ( HSPLS) is the only statewide public library system in the United States. The system has 51 libraries on all the major Hawaiian Islands: Big Island of Hawaiʻi, Kauaʻi, Lānaʻi, Maui, Molokaʻi and Oʻahu.
Pasha Hawaii. Pasha Hawaii with containers as seen from Sand Island in Honolulu, Hawaii. Pasha Hawaii is an American shipping company specializing in trade between Hawaii and the continental United States. The current president and CEO of the company is George W. Pasha, IV.
The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program ( HAARP) is a University of Alaska Fairbanks program which researches the ionosphere – the highest, ionized part of Earth's atmosphere . The most prominent instrument at HAARP is the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a high-power radio frequency transmitter facility operating in the high ...
The history of Hawaii is the story of human settlements in the Hawaiian Islands. Polynesians arrived sometime between 940 and 1200 AD. Kamehameha I, the ruler of the island of Hawaii, conquered and unified the islands for the first time, establishing the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1795.
Hawaii's ocean coastline is consequently the fourth-longest in the U.S., at about 750 miles (1,210 km). The eight main islands, from northwest to southeast, are Niʻihau , Kauaʻi , Oʻahu , Molokaʻi , Lānaʻi , Kahoʻolawe , Maui , and Hawaiʻi , after which the state is named; the latter is often called the "Big Island" or "Hawaii Island ...
Honolulu. The Hawaiian Islands ( Hawaiian: Mokupuni Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll. Formerly called the Sandwich Islands [a] by ...
Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA) is a nonprofit health insurer in the state of Hawaii. HMSA was founded in 1938, is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association , and is the largest insurer in the state of Hawaii serving more than 700,000 people.
Hilo High School. Hilo High School is a public, co-educational high school of the Hawaii State Department of Education, and serves grades nine through twelve. Established in 1906, its first class graduated in 1909. Hilo High School is near the Wailuku River in Hawaii County on the Big Island of Hawaii.
All the islands except Nihoa are north of the Tropic of Cancer, making them the only islands in Hawaii that lie outside the tropics . The Northwestern or Leeward Hawaiian Islands include: Nihoa (Moku Manu) at 23°03′38″N 161°55′19″W. / 23.06056°N 161.92194°W / 23.06056; -161.92194 ( Nihoa)