Inoa | Name(s)

Mauna Loa

Hiʻona ʻāina | Land characteristic: Mauna; Lua Pele

Hiʻona ʻāina o loko o kēia wahi | Feature(s) located within this place: Mokuʻāweoweo; Puʻu ʻEleʻele; Pōhaku Hanalei; Keʻāmuku

Hiʻona ʻāina nona kēia wahi | Feature(s) that contain this place: Kaʻohe Mauka; Hāmākua

Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo

He kuahiwi kēia ma ka mokupuni o Hawaiʻi. Koe ʻo Maunakea, ʻO Mauna Loa ke kuahiwi nui ma ka mokupuni o Hawaiʻi. Aia ka lua pele ʻo Mokuʻāweoweo ma Maunaloa, ka home kaulana o ka wahine ʻai honua, ʻo ia hoʻi o Pelehonuamea. 

Description

Active volcano, second highest mountain in Hawaiʻi, and probably the largest single mountain mass on earth, rising 13,677 feet above sea level and about 29,000 feet above its base on the ocean floor (Macdonald and Abbott 54); also quadrangle and trails, central Hawaiʻi. (Place Names of Hawaii)

ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi

E koho iā “Mauna Loa (Hawaiʻi)” no nā kumuwaiwai pili i ka mauna ma ka mokupuni o Hawaiʻi. No nā kumuwaiwai pili i ka mauna ma Molokaʻi, e koho iā “Maunaloa (Molokaʻi)”

Instructions

Use for the mountain located on Hawaiʻi Island. Not to be confused with the mountain located on the island of Molokaʻi.

Moʻokūʻauhau | Genealogy 

Akua | Deity: Pele

Kūmole | Source(s)

“Geology and History of Mauna Loa” United States Geological Survey (website).

“Mauna Loa,” Kīpuka Database, Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

“Moku of Hāmākua,” Kīpuka Database, Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

Soehren, Lloyd J. A Catalog of Hawaiʻi Place Names : Compiled from the Records of the Boundary Commission and the Board of Commissioners to Quiet Land Titles of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Honokaa, HI: L.J. Soehren, 2006.

Hoʻopili ʻia i | Applied to: Mountain fog on Mauna Loa, Hawaii, Princess Ruth intercedes with Pele and saves the town of Hilo, Annotated list of ferns of the Kilauea-Mauna Loa section of Hawaii national park

Mea haku | Created by: Na ka hui ʻimi naʻauao o Ka Wai Hāpai