Sentences with phrase «hawaiian island archipelago»

These inspirational falls are located on the island of Kauai in the Hawaiian island archipelago.

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Formed from volcanic eruptions, the Hawaiian archipelago, like other island chains, has a breathtaking variety of species — many found nowhere else on Earth — that evolved from a few hardy pioneers.

The Hawaiian Islands have long been thought to support just one endemic land mammal in the archipelago's brief geologic history, the Hawaiian hoary bat.

Global storms supply fertile topsoil to rocky islands in the Caribbean and the Hawaiian archipelago.

The rest of the population lives on the Hawaiian archipelago which stretches from the Big Island of Hawaii northwestward past Midway Island.

While there are hundreds of islands in the archipelago spread over some 1,500 miles, the eight largest are the center of Hawaiian life.

Formerly known as the Sandwich Islands, the Hawaiian archipelago spans the distance of 1,523 miles from the Big Island of Hawaii in the southeast to the Kure Atoll in the northwest.

The second - largest in the Hawaiian archipelago, the island's name is derived from the legend of Hawai`iloa, the Polynesian navigator credited with discovery of the Hawaiian Islands.

The Hawaiian Islands are one of the most isolated archipelagos in the world and each island boasts its own flavor and feel.

More turbine mayhem, this time it's Siemens turbines — less than 4 years old — collapsing on Maui — an island in the Hawaiian archipelago.

While the species once thrived across the entire Hawaiian archipelago, it dwindled to living exclusively on Laysan Island.