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From Our Digital
Oahu Drive Guide:
Historic Honolulu

The historic district of Honolulu boasts several fascinating sights, attracting visitors and residents, especially on days featuring special events.

The original statue of Kamehameha the Great was commissioned to honor the first chieftain to unite all the Hawaiian Islands. The statue was temporarily lost at sea during its transport from Europe and it now stands in front of the Kapaau Courthouse in North Kohala on the Big Island of Hawaii. The replica, now a prominent sight ...

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From Our Digital Molokai Drive Guide: Kalaupapa, Land of Saint Damien

An isolated plain sitting below some of the world’s highest sea cliffs, the Makanalua Peninsula is a place of astonishing beauty with a harsh history. Because of its isolation and the natural barriers of sea and cliffs, this land, better known as Kalaupapa, was chosen by the Kingdom of Hawaii, in early 1866, as the place leprosy victims would be shipped off to, spending the remainder of their days as prisoners of the land. ...

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From Our Digital
Holoholo Magazine:
Song of the Humpback Whale

For decades, biologists have known that all humpback whales in the same ocean sing the same song, and that the tune changes from year to year. What no one could figure out was how whales that live thousands of miles from each other and never cross paths could know what the others were singing.

It turns out that the whales do cross paths. Using the current, vast collections of humpback-identification photos, researchers now know that whales from different locales ...

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