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Volcanoes of Maui Nui

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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.
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.
Haleakalā
thumb|right|250px|Sunrise at Haleakalā Haleakalā (; Hawaiian: ), or the East Maui Volcano, is a massive, active shield volcano that forms more than 75% of the Hawaiian Island of Maui. The western 25% of the island is formed by another volcano, Mauna Kahalawai, also referred to as the West Maui Mountains.
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.
Kamakou
Kamakou () is a shield volcano on the island of Molokai in the U.S. state of Hawaii, with a summit elevation of . It is part of the extinct East Molokai shield volcano, which comprises the east side of the island.
West Maui Mountains
much eroded shield volcano that constitutes the western one-quarter of the Hawaiian Island of Maui
Puu Kukui
mountain in United States of America