Kauaʻi
See also: Kauai
English
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[edit]Kauaʻi
- Alternative form of Kauai.
- 2004, Robert D. Craig, “Menehune”, in Handbook of Polynesian Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology), Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Deities, Themes, and Concepts), page 171:
- One of the most remarkable structures attributed to the menehune is the Menehune Ditch (sometimes called Ola’s Water Lead) on the island of Kauaʻi, a ditch that brings water from Waimea River to the taro patches on the other side of the mountain, some six miles away.
- 2010, Patrick Vinton Kirch, “Sources for Reconstructing Contact-Era Hawaiʻi”, in How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawaiʻi, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Hawaiian Archaic States on the Eve of European Contact), page 31:
- Samuel Kamakau, a bit younger than [David] Malo (he was born in 1815), was also a Lahainaluna student and his family traced its descent from the priestly class of Oʻahu and Kauaʻi.
- 2014, Anne J. Jefferson, Ken L. Ferrier, J. Taylor Perron, Ricardo Ramalho, “Controls on the Hydrological and Topographic Evolution of Shield Volcanoes and Volcanic Ocean Islands”, in Karen S. Harpp, Eric Mittelstaedt, Noémi d’Ozouville, David W. Graham, editors, The Galápagos: A Natural Laboratory for the Earth Sciences (Geophysical Monograph; 204), Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union; Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, […], page 193, column 1:
- There is a large difference in timescale between the modern precipitation rates in Figure 10.5 and the paleoprecipitation rates that helped shape Kauaʻi’s topography over the past 5 Myr, as there is in any study that links long-term landscape evolution to modern climate measurements.
Hawaiian
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[edit]Kauaʻi
- Kauai (an island in Hawaii, United States)