Hawaii
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- Names
Hawaii
Hawaii Island
Hawaiʻi
Hawaii county
The Big Island
- Place Type
- county
- Description
- Island & county are coextensive & are state's largest; sights include Volcanoes National Park & the mountains of Mauna Loa & Mauna Kea, which rise more than 9,000 feet above sea level.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990); Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (2002-); Getty Vocabulary Program rules; Hawaiʻi State Government (1999); Rand McNally Atlas (1989); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994);
- Died
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