The Big Island of Hawaii - The Orchid Island

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The Big Island of Hawaii which is also known as The Volcano Island; is more
fascinating than you can imagine. It includes Kilauea, Mauna Kea and Mauna
Loa volcanoes, two of which tower 13,700 feet above the Pacific. The island
is home to coffee plantations, lush green valleys, green sand beaches,
black sand beaches, the largest privately-owned cattle Ranch in the U.S.
and over a dozen telescopes atop Mauna Kea, including the 2 largest in the
world. The Big Island is almost twice the size of all the other Hawaiian
islands combined and offers the most diversity. Geologically, the Big
Island is the youngest of the Hawaiian islands and the most volcanically
active. The Big Island was the first to be populated by Polynesians about
600 AD and was the birthplace, in 1753, of Kamehameha the Great who
consolidated the islands into one kingdom, which he ruled until his death
in 1819. In the 1200s, the Tahitians introduced luakini or human sacrifice
temples which later spread throughout the islands.

The British Navigator and explorer, Captain James Cook, who introduced
Polynesia to Europe, died on the Big Island of Hawaii.

For more information about the Big Island of Hawaii, you are invited to
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