夏威夷-英文PPT介绍
夏威夷PPT
对于他们来说，草裙舞是无字的文学作品，是他们的生命和灵感，也 是让外界了解他们的窗口。 For them, the hula dance is not the word of literary works, is their life and inspiration, but also let the outside world know their window.
• 夏威夷的冲浪运动至少已经有600年的历史了，1778年， 库克船长踏上这片海岸时，当地人高超的冲浪技艺就让这 群闯入者赞叹不已。
• Hawaii surfing at least have 600 years of history, in 1778, Captain Cook set foot on the coast, locals superb surfing skills let this group of the intruder with admiration.
夏威夷的草裙舞
草裙舞，又名“呼拉舞”，是一种注重手脚和腰部动作的舞曲。 Is a focus on the hands and feet and waist movement dance
草裙舞是夏威夷最有代表性的活动了，它的表演形式多种多样，一个 舞者可以表演，一队舞者也能表演。Hula is Hawaii most has the representative activity, its performance form many and varied, a dancer can perform, a team of dancers can perform.
（完整版）Hawaii夏威夷英文介绍
（完整版）Hawaii夏威夷英⽂介绍HawaiiUnited States GeographyThe Hawaiian archipelago is a string of islands and reefs, 3,300 kilometers long, that forms a broad arc in the mid-Pacific. The archipelago begins in the east with the island of Hawaii and ends almost at the international date line with a small speck in the ocean called Kure Atoll. Only the easternmost 650 kilometers of the state contains islands of any size, as well as almost all of the state's population. It is this portion that is usually considered as the actual "Hawaii."The eight main islands of Hawaii--Oahu, Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, Lanai, Molokai, Niihau, and Kahoolawe--contain more than 99 percent of the state's land area and all but a handful of its people. The island of Hawaii, at 8,150 square kilometers, comprises nearly two-thirds of the state's total area, and it is often referred to as simply the Big Island. The smallest of the eight, Kahoolawe, is 125 square kilometers and is uninhabited.LOCATION AND PHYSICAL SETTINGHawaii is near the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Honolulu, the state capital,is 3,850 kilometers west of San Francisco, California, 6,500 kilometers east of Tokyo, Japan, and roughly 7,300 kilometers northeast of the Australian coast. This might be viewed as a case of extreme isolation, and until the last few centuries this was probably true. But as countries around the Pacific Basin began to communicate more with one another and to use the ocean's resources, these islands became an important center of interaction.The Hawaiian chain is merely the visible portion of a series of massive volcanoes. The ocean floor in this area is 4,000 to 5,000 meters below sea level. Hence, for a volcano to break the water's surface requires a mountain already approaching 5 kilometers in height.The kind of volcanic activity that created the islands and that continues there today has, for the most part, not been of the explosive type in which large pieces of material are thrown great distances. Volcanic cones resulting from explosive eruptions do exist on the islands. Diamond Head, the Honolulu landmark, is the largest at about 240 meters. More common, however, are features formed from a gradual buildup of material as a sequence of lava flows piled one layer on top of another. The usual shape of volcanic mountains formed in this way is domelike, with the main feature being undulating slopes instead of steep cliffs.Several of the volcanos on the Big Island remain active. Mauna Loa pours out lava on the average of once every four years, and volcanic activity poses a constant threat to Hilo, the island's largest town. A 1950 eruption covered some 100 square kilometers. Another volcano, Kiluea, is usually active, but lava actually flows from it about once in every seven years. A 1960 flow from Kiluea covered 10 square kilometers, adding some 260 hectares to the island's size.Hawaii is a state of rugged slopes and abrupt changes in elevation. This is the result of the erosion of the volcanic surfaces by moving water. Sea cliffs cut by waves form a spectacular edge to parts of the islands. Such cliffs on the northeast side of Molokai stand as much as 1,150 meters above the water and are among the world's highest; others on Kauai exceed 600 meters. Some small streams on the northeast side of the Big Island drop over such cliffs directly into the sea.Stream erosion has heavily dissected many of the lava surfaces. Canyons lace many of the domes. The floor of Waimea Canyon, on Kauai, is more than 800 meters below the surface of the surrounding land. Waterfalls several hundred meters high are common on the islands. The Pali, on Oahu, is a line of cliffs where the headwaters of streams eroding from opposite sides of the island meet. Those flowing east have eroded the ridges separating them to cut a broad lowland;the westward-facing valleys are higher and remain separated by ridges.One important result of this intense erosive action is a limited amount of level land on the islands. Kauai is particularly rugged, with the only lowlands formed as a thin coastal fringe. Maui has a flat, narrow central portion separating mountainous extremities. Molokai is reasonably flat on its western end. Oahu has a broad central valley plus some sizable coastal lowlands. The island of Hawaii has only some limited coastal lava plains.Hawaii's oceanic location obviously has a substantial impact on its climate. It is the ocean that fills the winds with the water that brush the islands' mountains. The ocean also moderates the islands' temperatureextremes--Honolulu's record high of 31癈 is matched by a record low of only 13癈.The latitude of Honolulu, about 20癗, is the same as Calcutta and Mexico City. As a result, there is little change in the length of daylight or the angle of incidence of the sun's rays from one season to another. This factor, plus the state's maritime position, means that there is little seasonal variation in temperature.It is variations in precipitation that mark the major changes in season on the islands. During the summer, Hawaii is under the persistent influence of northeast trade winds, which approach the islands over cool waters located to the northeast and create characteristic Hawaiian weather--breezy, sunny with some clouds, warm but not hot. In winter, these trade winds disappear, sometimes for weeks, allowing "invasions" of storms from the north and northwest. Honolulu has received as much as 43 centimeters of rain in a single 24-hour period. Hawaiian weather stations have also recorded 28 centimeters in an hour and 100 centimeters in a day, both of which rank near world records.The topography of the islands creates extreme variations in precipitation from one location to another. Mount Waialeale, on Kauai, receives 1,234 centimeters annually, making it one of the world's wettest spots, and Waimea, also on Kauai, receives about 50 centimeters annually--yet these two sites are only 25 kilometers apart. Within the metropolitan area of Honolulu, it is possible to live near the beach in a semiarid climate with less than 50 centimeters of rainfall annually or inland near Pali on the margins of a rain forest drenched by 300 centimeters of precipitation a year. Unlike the Pacific Northwest, the greatest precipitation on the higher mountains in Hawaii occurs at fairly low elevations, usually between 600 and 1,200 meters. Much of the volcanic soil is permeable. This allows water to percolate rapidly, draining beyond the reach of many plants. Thus, many areas of moderate to lowprecipitation are arid in appearance.The isolation of the Hawaiian islands, coupled with their generally temperate climate and great environmental variation, has created a plant and bird community of vast diversity. There are several thousand plants native there and found naturally nowhere else; 66 uniquely Hawaiian land birds have also been identified. Interestingly, there were no land mammals on the islands until humans arrived.POPULATING THE ISLANDSThe Polynesian settlement of Hawaii was a segment in one of humankind's most audacious periods of ocean voyaging. These people set out on repeated voyages in open canoes across broad oceanic expanses separating small island clusters. Settlers who came to Hawaii 1,000 years ago, for example, are presumed to have come from the Marquesas, 4,000 kilometers to the southwest. There was some kind of pre-Polynesian population on the island, but it was probably absorbed by the newcomers. A second substantial wave of Polynesian migrants arrived 500 or 600 years ago.The massive effort required by these voyages apparently became too great. As a result, Hawaii spent several hundred years in isolation after the second migration period. During the isolation, the Hawaiians solidified a complicated social organization in their insular paradise. Hereditary rulers held absolute sway over their populations and owned all of the land. By the late 18th century, when Europeans found the islands, the benign environment supported a population that numbered about 300,000.The first European to visit Hawaii, which he dubbed the Sandwich Islands, was Captain James Cook in 1778. Cook was killed on the shore of the Big Island, but news of his discovery spread rapidly after reaching Europe and North America; it was quickly recognized that the islands were the best location for a waystation to exploit the trade developing between North America and Asia.In the 1820s, the whaling industry moved into the North Pacific and, for the next half-century, the islands became the principal rest and resupply center for whalers. About the same time, Protestant missionaries came to the islands. Like most of the whalers, they were from the northeastern United States. They were very successful in their missionary work, and for decades had a major influence on the islanders.The first Hawaiian sugar plantation was established in 1837, although the islands did not become a substantial producer until after the middle of the century. Between then and the end of the 19th century, Hawaii grew to the rankof a major world sugar exporter.This development led to a need for agricultural laborers. Native Hawaiians were used for a time, but their declining numbers provided nothing like the labor force needed. Thus, between 1852 and 1930, plantation owners brought 400,000 agricultural laborers, mostly Asian, to Hawaii. In 1852, ethnic Hawaiians represented over 95 percent of the population of the islands. By 1900, they were less than 15 percent of the total population of just over 150,000, whereas nearly 75 percent were Oriental. After 1930, the mainland United States became the main source of new residents in Hawaii. In 1910, only about one resident of Hawaii in five was of European ancestry (referred to in Hawaii as Caucasian). Now, nearly 40 percent of the state's population is Caucasian or part-Caucasian.The population of Hawaii fell from its pre-European peak to a low of 54,000 in 1876 before beginning to grow again. By the early 1920s, the state's population had reached pre-European levels, and in 1988, the state had 1.1 million residents. Because of immigration, Hawaii's annual rate of population growth is well above the U.S. average.The pre-European population was spread across the islands, with the Big Island occupied by the largest number of people. Since European discovery, the islands' population has been concentrated increasingly on Oahu. Honolulu, with its fine harbor, became the principal port city.The political history of Hawaii was turbulent during the 120 years after Cook's discovery. The various kingdoms of the islands were eliminated by a strong chief, Kamehameha, between 1785 and 1795. The missionaries' growing influence gradually made a sham of the authority of the Hawaiian rulers, and, during the 19th century, competing European political interests moved in to fill the resulting vacuum.But the increasing role of Americans made it inevitable that, if Hawaii was to lose its political independence, it would be annexed by the United States. As American plantation owners increased in number and influence, their dissatisfaction with the Hawaiian government grew. In 1887, they forced the monarchy to accept an elected government controlled by the planters. The monarchy was overthrown completely in 1893, and the new revolutionary government immediately requested annexation by the United States. Initially refused, they were finally accepted as a territory in 1898.No provision was made at the time of annexation for the eventual admission of Hawaii to statehood, and it was not until 1959, after Alaska was admittedto the union, that Hawaii became the 50th U.S. state.THE HAWAIIAN ECONOMYRoughly half of all land in Hawaii is government owned, with the state, not the federal government, controlling 80 percent of that land. Most of it is in the agriculturally less desirable portions of the islands, and the bulk is in forest reserves and conservation districts. Most federal lands are primarily in national parks on the Big Island and Maui, or in military holdings on Oahu and Kahoolawe.Seven-eighths of all privately owned land in Hawaii is in the hands of only 39 owners; each owns 2,000 hectares or more. Six different landowners each control more than 40,000 hectares out of a state total of about 1,040,000 hectares. Smaller unit ownership of private land is most extensive on Oahu, but even there the larger owners control more than two-thirds of all privately owned land. Two of the islands, Lanai and Niihau, are each nearly entirely controlled by a single owner, and on all of the other islands (except Oahu) major landowners control about 90 percent of all privately held property.Most of these large landholdings were created during the 19th century period of freewheeling exploitation on the islands. Land had previously been held entirely by the monarchies. This land passed into the hands of non-Hawaiian private owners during the political decline of the monarchy. With the deaths of the early owners, most estates have been given over to trusts to administer rather than passing directly to heirs. This has made it difficult to break up the ownership patterns, which has led to high land values and pockets of high population density.Sugar, and later pineapples, fueled the Hawaiian economy for many decades after the 1860s. The economy remained primarily agricultural until the late 1940s. In recent decades, agriculture has continued to show modest gains in income, but its relative importance has declined. Only one Hawaiian worker in 30 is currently employed in agriculture.However, Hawaii continues to provide a substantial share of the world's sugar harvest, and its production of pineapples is about 650,000 tons annually, making it the world's largest supplier of pineapples.Gross economic statistics overwhelmingly emphasize the position of Oahu, where more than 80 percent of the state's economy is concentrated. The role of agriculture remains great on the other islands. Both Lanai and Molokai depend on pineapples for much of their employment and income. Livestock and sugar form the backbone of the economy on the Big Island, as do sugar andpineapples on Maui and Kauai.As agriculture declined and lost its dominance over the Hawaiian economy, its place was first taken by the federal government. Over the past several decades, governmental expenditures have increased at a rate roughly comparable to the growth of the total economy, maintaining about a one-third share of all expenditures. Most of this has come from the military, which controls almost 25 percent of Oahu, including the land around Pearl Harbor, one of the finest natural harbors in the Pacific. Nearly one Hawaiian worker in four is an employee of the military, and military personnel and their dependents together represent over 10 percent of Hawaii's population. The armed forces are also the largest civilian employer in the state.Tourism is a major industry, with over 4.5 million people visiting the state each year. Tourism has become the principal growth sector of the economy, increasing its share of total island income from 4 percent in 1950 to over 30 percent today. INTER-ISLAND DIVERSITYThe major Hawaiian islands are part of the same state, they have similar geologic histories, and they are closely spaced in a vast ocean, yet each has its own character. Oahu is densely populated and intensely used, and it offers a view of bustle and confusion common to urban America. The island of Hawaii, the Big Island, by comparison has an air of relative space and distance, with large ranches, high, barren volcanos, and large stretches of almost treeless land. Its land area is dominated by five huge shield volcanoes. Sugar, cattle ranching, and tourism are its major industries.Kauai, sometimes called the garden isle because of its lush tropical vegetation, is heavily eroded into a spectacular scenery of mountains, canyons, cliffs, and waterfalls. Kauai is becoming increasingly popular with tourists because of its dramatic physical environment. Neighboring Niihau is privately owned and is operated as the Niihau Ranch Company. Most of its few hundred residents are native Hawaiians.Maui, the second largest of the islands, offers a contrast between the plantations of its central lowlands and the rugged mountains to either side. Tourist development, concentrated along the western coastal strip, has been intense, with the result that Maui had the most rapid rate of population increase of any of the islands in the 1970s and 1980s. Still, much of the rest of the island remains little changed and sparsely populated.Molokai is half ranchland and half rugged mountains. Its north coast is dominated by spectacular sea cliffs as much as 1,100 meters high, while thesouth shore is a broad coastal plain. It is perhaps the least economically developed of the populated Hawaiian Islands. Lanai and Kahoolawe are both in the lea of much higher Maui. As a result, both are dry. Neither have any permanent streams. Pineapple production is the only important economic activity on Lanai. The U.S. Navy administers Kahoolawe and uses it for military exercises.。
夏威夷——英语课件
The Hula
• If the people talk about Hawaii they must
• Know it, a story is that god of dancing
• Danced it first she wanted to cheer her sisters came back,so the people thought this kind of dance is a very sacred dance.
Discoverer and creators
• 1778 British explorer James Cook to find the shortest way between the Atlantic and the Pacific ,then, he named
• It with two friends name discovered the Hawaiian Islands .
Question time
• 1.who found Hawaii? • 2.where is it? • 3.what is the end of the Chain of Craters
Road ?
• About more than two thousand five hundred years to more than forty million years ago , the Hawaiian Islands, where the Pacific plate northwestward drift , collide with the Eurasian plate , accepted geological changes hit the edge of the area , to form hot underground
夏威夷英语介绍ppt
阿拉斯加雪橇犬 Alaskan sled dogs
King Salmon
Alaska has no Disneyland, no luxury casinos, no cultural relics, but Alaska has eight national parks, 300 million lakes, 10 million glaciers, plenty of vast woodlands and majestic mountains. If you want to use a word to describe Alaska, that is "wild". If you like nature and wild animals Alaska is your heaven.
Wild animals zoo
Glacier Bay (冰川湾) it is said that you can not die until you've seen it. how attractive! It's credible how can nature move you in heavy breathing. You'll wish you have another pair of eyes!
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Volcanic eruption
magma into the sea
Dancing Hula 草裙舞
Ancient time : show the respect of the God
At present :
for entertainment
热带植物园
Tropical botanical garden
夏威夷简介
夏威夷有一个事实上的人口超过140万,部分原因是大量的军事
移民和旅游的居民。夏威夷的140万居民,分布在6000平方英里的土
地上。
夏威夷是美国亚裔人口比例最高的州，日本人是夏威夷最大的
亚洲少数民族，其次是菲律宾人、土著人、中国人、朝鲜人、越南
人、老挝人和泰国人
haweiians
economy
Most of the labor and employment, personal income residents on the island of Hawaii as well as the state's tax rely on an endless stream every year 7 million tourists at home and abroad to sightseeing in Hawaii Hawaii because of the tourism industry in Hawaii occupies an important position in the economy, therefore, Hawaii government attaches great importance to protect the environment, protection of touri最大岛屿的名字而得名，夏威夷群岛位于2000英
里（3200公里）的美国大陆西南。夏威夷是第50个州,最近加入美国
的州,在1959年8月21日加入。夏威夷是美国唯一位于大洋洲的州,唯
一一个完全由群岛组成的州。最北部在波利尼西亚群岛,占据大部分
太平洋群岛的中央。这个州不遵守夏令时。
climate
Hawaii's climate is typical for the tropics.Hawaii's diverse natural scenery, warm tropical climate, abundance of public beaches, oceanic surroundings, and active volcanoes make it a popular destination for tourists, surfers, biologists, and volcanologists. Because of its central location in the Pacific and 19th-century labor migration, Hawaii's culture is strongly influenced by North American and Asian cultures, in addition to its indigenous Hawaiian culture. Hawaii has over a million permanent residents, along with many visitors and U.S. military personnel.
夏威夷英文介绍ppt课件
• Most of Hawaii has only two seasons: the dry season from May to October, and the wet season from October to April.
• Local climates vary considerably on each island, grossly divisible into windward (Koolau) and leeward (Kona) areas based upon location relative to the higher mountains. Windward sides face cloud cover. Hawaii therefore concentrates resorts on sunny leeward coasts.
• Recently, Hawaii has garnered additional attention as the location where U.S. President Barack Obama was born and spent much of his youth. Obama is the only president to hail from the state.
(完整版)夏威夷中英文简介
夏威夷群岛位于北太平洋，由8个大岛和120多个小岛组成。
夏威夷群岛没有非常有名气的名胜古迹，但却用她得天独厚的自然风光和岛上居民的热情，招呼着每年来自全球成千上万的游客。
夏威夷群岛的八个主岛：夏威夷岛、毛伊岛、卡胡拉韦岛、拉奈岛、莫洛凯岛、瓦胡岛、可爱岛、尼豪岛全都是火山岛，其中瓦胡岛是夏威夷州州府檀香山所在;可爱岛静谧安详，极具田园风光;毛伊岛的秀丽山谷、夏威夷大岛的火山熔岩同样不可错过。
夏威夷的波利尼西亚文化创造出许多独特的文化表演，其中，草裙舞是游客印象最深刻的。
夏威夷融合东西方之文化，连结南北半球文明，是名副其实的闪耀在太平洋上的一颗明珠Hawaii is the most recent of the 50 U.S. states (joined the Union on August 21, 1959), and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean.Hawaii’s diverse natural scenery, warm tropical climate, abundance of public beaches, oceanic surroundings, and active volcanoes make it a popular destination for tourists, surfers, biologists, and volcanologists alike. Due to its mid-Pacific location, Hawaii has many North American and Asian influences along with its own vibrant native culture. Hawaii has over a million permanent residents along with many visitors and U.S. military personnel. The state encompasses nearly the entire volcanic Hawaiian Island chain, which comprises hundreds of islands spread over 1,500 miles (2,400 km). Hawaii is the 8th-least extensive, the 11th-least populous, but the 13th-most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states. Hawaii's ocean coastline is approximately 750 miles (1,210 km) long, which is fourth in the United States after thoseof Alaska, Florida and California.Hawaii is one of two states that do not observe daylight saving time, the other being Arizona. It is also one of two states that are not in theContiguous United States; the other is Alaska. Hawaii is the only state with an Asian plurality.。
阿拉斯加与夏威夷介绍
Alaska was officially proclaimed a state on January 3, 1959.
Hawaii & Alaska
—Two Opposite Paradises
By Vanice Health Science Center
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Statistics
•the 50th state of USA • area：16,705 km2
47th in USA •population：136,0301
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大岛--阿卡卡瀑布，Akaka Falls, Big Island
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毛伊岛-岛上瀑布， Island Falls, Maui,
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考爱岛-韦卢阿瀑布，Wailua Falls, Kauai,
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Volcanoes
Polynesians and the Hawaiian Guitar
Hula dance
草 裙 舞
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Films about Hawaii
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Historic Events
•the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941，one of the turning poi Position
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Surfing is one of the most popular sports in Hawaii.
Dancing Hula
Like many other traditional dance forms, hula was heavily discouraged by missionaries and other representatives of Euro-America in the nineteenth century. It seemed to them immoral, and also a waste of time. But it survived in the countryside, and, as in the usual colonial/post-colonial stories, there was eventually a vigorous revival, headed by cultural loyalists.
THE CITIZENS:
People who live in Hawaii or who come from Hawaii are not all referred to as Hawaiians. Dictionaries have described Hawaiians as natives or residents of the State of Hawaii. Increasingly, however, this broad terminology has given way to a distinctive division between indigenous or native Hawaiians and non-natives. Today, the term Hawaiians is generally reserved for those people who are indigenous or native people of the Hawaiian Islands.
Location
In the middle of pacific ocean In the middle of pacific plate
Island chain formed from a geologic hot spot
History
A state of the United States in the central Pacific Ocean , consisting of over 20 volcanic islands and atolls, including Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, and Molokai: discovered by Captain Cook in 1778; annexed by the US in 1898. The islands became a U.S. territory in 1900, which was admitted as the 50th state owds and hustle of everyday life, Lanai is a destination of untouched tranquility. This romantic island is a true getaway.
From its heavenly beaches to its scenic natural wonders, there are plenty of reasons why Maui has been voted “Best Island” by readers for more than a dozen years.
Scenic Spots in Hawaii
Six islands
Kauai is known as “The Garden Isle” for its tropical rainforests, fertile valleys and lush flora. So it’s not surprising to find some of Hawaii’s most beautiful botanical gardens on Kauai.
On Oahu, Hawaii’s timeless beauty blends with the modern luxuries of today. Swim in the warm waters of world-famous Waikiki one moment, then enjoy the dramatic mountain views. Watch the surfers on the legendary North Shore by day, then dance the night away in vibrant nightlife spots around Honolulu.
Food
The islands ethnic diversity makes eating out a real treat. You can find every kind of Japanese food, an array of regional Chinese cuisine, spicy Korean specialties, native Hawaiian dishes and excellent Thai and Vietnamese food. Fresh fish is readily available throughout the islands as well as an abundance of fruit including avocado, coconut, guava, mango and papaya.
Serene seascapes. Unspoiled coastlines. Untamed wilderness. Visit Molokai and travel back to a timeless place. This is an island that stays true to its Hawaiian traditions, tucked away from the hustle of the outside world. Where no building is taller than a coconut tree. Where there’s no traffic and no traffic lights. Where you can feel the mana (power) of Hawaiian culture
Hawaii’s Big Island isn’t just big, it’s still growing. The Island of Hawaii is the youngest island in the Hawaiian chain and is also by far the biggest, providing a vast canvas of environments to discover a variety of unrivaled natural wonders. This is the home of one of the world’s most active volcanoes (Kilauea), the tallest sea mountain in the world at more than 33,000 feet (Maunakea), the most massive mountain in the world (Maunaloa) and the largest park in the state (Hawaii Volcanoes National Park).
The fresh, floral air energizes you. The warm, tranquil waters refresh you. The breathtaking, natural beauty renews you. Look around. There’s no place on earth like Hawaii.
Climates:pleasant
Winds blows from NorthEast all year long leading to more rain on Northeastern slope and less on the other side.So one side is tropical rainforest while other side is tropical grassland.