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Oahu
Hawaiian Islands
archipelago in the Pacific Ocean
Hawaii
largest of the Hawaiian islands
Maui
thumb|220x220px|Maui (center right, with Molokai|Molokai, Lānai, and Kahoolawe to its left) as seen from the [[International Space Station]]
Kauaʻi
Kauai, sometimes written Kauai, is one of the main Hawaiian Islands. It has an area of 562.3 square miles (1,456.4 km2), making it the fourth-largest of the islands and the 21st-largest island in the United States. Kauai is 73 miles (117 km) northwest of Oahu, across the Kauai Channel. The island's 2020 population was 73,298.
Molokaʻi
Lanai
Lānai, sometimes written Lanai, is the sixth-largest of the Hawaiian Islands and the smallest publicly accessible inhabited island in the chain. It is colloquially known as the Pineapple Island because of its past as an island-wide pineapple plantation. The island's only settlement of note is the small town of Lānai City. The island is 98% owned by Larry Ellison, cofounder and chairman of Oracle Corporation; the remaining 2% is owned by the state of Hawaii or individual homeowners.
Niʻihau
Niʻihau, sometimes written Niihau, is the seventh largest island in Hawaii and the westernmost of the main islands. It is southwest of Kauai across the Kaulakahi Channel. Its area is . Several intermittent playa lakes provide wetland habitats for the Hawaiian coot, the Hawaiian stilt, and the Hawaiian duck. The island is designated as critical habitat for Brighamia insignis, an endemic and endangered species of Hawaiian lobelioid. The United States Census Bureau defines Niihau and the neighboring island and State Seabird Sanctuary of Lehua as Census Tract 410 of Kauai County, Hawaii. Its 2010
Kahoolawe
Kahoolawe is the smallest of the eight main volcanic islands of the Hawaiian Islands. Unpopulated, it lies about southwest of Maui. The island is long by wide, with a total land area of . Its highest point is the crater of Luamakika, at the summit of Puuomoaula Nui, about above sea level.
Kaʻula
thumb|upright=1.3|Kaula Island viewed from the north on Kaʻula Island, also called Kaʻula Rock, is a small, crescent-shaped island in the Hawaiian Islands. It is located 22 miles southwest of Niʻihau.
Ford Island
islet at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, USA
Lehua
thumb|300px|right|2007 aerial view of Lehua thumb|300px|right|Location of Lehua Island (dot at left) in relation to Niʻihau and [[Kauaʻi, in the Hawaiian Islands.]] thumb|upright=1.5|right|View of Lehua from the north shore of Niʻihau thumb|upright=1.5|right|View of Lehua looking East
Molokini
Molokini is a crescent-shaped, partially submerged volcanic crater which forms a small, uninhabited islet located in ʻAlalākeiki Channel between the islands of Maui and Kahoolawe, within Maui County in Hawaii. It is the remains of one of the seven Pleistocene epoch volcanoes that formed the prehistoric Maui Nui island, during the Quaternary Period of the Cenozoic Era.
Mokoliʻi
thumb|Mokoli'i Mokolii (), also known as '''Chinaman's Hat''', is a basalt islet in Kāneʻohe Bay, Hawaii. Mokolii is part of Kualoa Regional Park and located offshore of Kualoa Point, Oahu. The islet was at one time part of a basaltic ridge on Oahu before marine erosion separated it. thumb|250px|Mokoliʻi as seen from the shore of Kualoa Beach Park
Mānana
Mānana Island is an uninhabited islet located off Kaupō Beach, near Makapuu at the eastern end of the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands. In the Hawaiian language, mānana means "buoyant". The islet is commonly referred to as Rabbit Island, because its shape as seen from the nearby Oahu shore looks something like a rabbit's head and because it was once inhabited by introduced rabbits. The rabbit colony was established by John Adams Cummins in the 1880s when he ran the nearby Waimānalo plantation. The rabbits were eradicated about a hundred years later because they were destroying the native
Moku Manu
island in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States
Na Mokulua
islets off the coast of Oahu in Hawaii, United States
Maui Nui
prehistoric Hawaiian island
Coconut Island
island in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States of America
East Island
mostly eroded island of Hawaii
Sand Island
island in the city of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Mokolea Rock
island in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States
Coconut Island
island in Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States of America