Hawaiʻi is the largest island located in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It is the largest and the southeastern-most of the Hawaiian islands, a chain of volcanic islands in the North Pacific Ocean.The island is often referred to as the Island of Hawaiʻi, the Big Island, or Hawaiʻi Island to distinguish between the island and the state along with the promptbuscharters.com
Places of interest
ʻAkaka Falls on Kolekole Stream
Green turtle lying on an old lava flow; the background shows a Hawaiian temple, known as a “heiau” in the Hawaiian language.Akaka Falls; one of the taller waterfalls on the island.
Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden houses many endangered endemic plants.
East Hawaiʻi Cultural Center
Hawaiʻi Tropical Botanical Garden
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park; comprising the active volcanoes Kīlauea and Mauna Loa
Huliheʻe Palace; a royal palace in Kailua-Kona
ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaiʻi in Hilo
Ka Lae, the southernmost point in the United States
Laupahoehoe Train Museum
Lyman House Memorial Museum in Hilo
Manuka State Wayside Park
Mauna Kea Observatory; Mauna Kea Observatories
Nani Mau Gardens
Onizuka Center for International Astronomy
Onizuka Space Center; museum dedicated to the memory of Challenger astronaut Ellison Onizuka located in Kona’s Keahole Airport
Pacific Tsunami Museum overlooking Hilo Bay
Pana’ewa Rainforest Zoo in Hilo
Pua Mau Place Arboretum and Botanical Garden
Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park
Pu’ukohola Heiau National Historic Site, the site of one of the most significant heiau in Hawaii.
Rainbow Falls State Park
Sadie Seymour Botanical Gardens
Umauma Falls
University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Botanical Gardens
World Botanical Gardens
Waipiʻo Valley
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