This park encompasses the summits of two of the worlds most active volcanoes, Kilauea and Mauna Loa
and is a designated International Biosphere Reserve and UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is also one of the most ecologically diverse landscapes in the world.
Located more than 2,000 miles from the nearest continent,
the Hawaiian Islands are the most geographically isolated group of islands on Earth.

Volcanoes

Volcanoes are monuments to Earth's origins, evidences that its primordial forces are still at work.
Overtime, these prodigious land builders have created the Hawaiian island chain itself

Kīlauea
Kīlauea is the youngest and most active volcano on the island of Hawaiʻi,and one of the busiest in the world.
In recorded history, Kīlauea has only had short periods of repose.
It has covered almost 90% of its surface in lava flows within the last 1,000 years.
Some say that even the name Kīlauea translates to “spewing" or "much spreading”.
First forming underwater roughly 280,000 years ago,
Kīlauea is a fairly typical shield volcano with long, shallow slopes.
Its surface makes up an area slightly smaller than the island of Oʻahu.

Mauna Loa
Mauna Loa is the largest active volcano on the planet.
Meaning "long mountain" in Hawaiian, it is the quintessential shield volcano in its shape— signified by broad, rounded slopes.
The volcano makes up roughly 51% of Hawaiʻi Island and stands 13,681 feet (4,170 m) above sea level.
More impressive, however, it rises an astonishing 30,000 feet (9,144 m) from the bottom of the sea, a greater height than Mount Everest.
The ocean floor actually bends under the weight of this mammoth mountain.
By itself, the land mass that Mauna Loa encompasses is almost equal twice all of the other Hawaiian islands combined.







Made By Charles "Charlie" Ward on 9/5/2024

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