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Part of a glorious frenzy of vegetation, planted and native, that we saw on the unforgettable Hawaiian Island of Molokai. One of my personal favorites. Featured in my photo essay “Flora in Focus.”
Les îles hawaïennes, avec un gros plan sur le volcan 🌋 Mauna Loa sur la plus grande d'entre elles. J'avais pris quasiment les mêmes photos lors de #Proxima : si vous voulez comparer, elles sont ici 😊 www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=72168594%40N04&sort=da...
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The islands of Hawaii, with a close up of the Mauna Loa Volcano 🌋 on the larger island (I took almost the same pic during Proxima). www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=72168594%40N04&sort=da...
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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Flying a chopper over Moloka'i, you'll get a birds eye view of this incredibly unspoiled island and it's amazing landscape.
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Just before a storm some strange clouds formed over the Island of Lanai. Shot from the island of Molokai
"The Pailolo Channel separates the islands of Molokaʻi and Maui. Although the channel is only about 8.4 miles (13.5 km) at its shortest point, it is one of the windiest and roughest in the Hawaiian Islands."
From 1866 to 1969, this peninsula hosted an isolation settlement to which Hawaiians with leprosy were banished. Leprosy was a progressive, incurable infectious disease until the advent of antibiotics, and a reliable regimen was not developed until the 1980s. A handful of the original deportees still remain.
The peninsula is isolated from the rest of the island by 3,000-foot sea cliffs; a foot trail (now closed by landslide) crosses the mountains, but most people and supplies arrived by boat. (There is now an airstrip as well.) Before the advent of Europeans, the peninsula supported 1,000 to 2,700 inhabitants, but it was depopulated by European diseases, leaving a village of only 140 by 1866.
The main island was formed by two main volcanoes; the cliffs came about when the north third of this island slid into the abyss. The new land was built by a late episode of vulcanism emanating from a third volcano in the center of the peninsula (its crater visible as a dark shadow here).