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3 unusual facts about Hilo


Hurricane Fefa

A man in Hilo was burnt when lightning moved through telephone wires.

Pisces V

A mock-up of the control panel of the Pisces V can be visited by the public at the Mokupāpapa Discovery Center in Hilo, Hawaii.

Wailuku River

It flows generally eastward, descending steeply from the mountain and entering the Pacific Ocean at Hilo.


1960 Valdivia earthquake

A 1969 episode of the U.S. television series Hawaii Five-O titled "Forty Feet High and it Kills!" referred to the tsunami that devastated Hilo in 1960.

23d Bomb Squadron

On 27 December 1935, the Mauna Loa volcano on the island of Hawaii erupted, threatening the city of Hilo.

Fortunato Teho

During this time, Teho also began writing regular gardening columns for newspapers throughout the state of Hawaii, including the Honolulu Advertiser and Star-Bulletin, the Hilo Hawaii Tribune-Herald, the Maui News and the Kauai Garden Island.

Hilo Art Museum

In April 2007, artist and island resident, Ted Coombs, began to realize his dream of a general art museum in Hilo, Hawaii, the State's second largest city.

Hilo Bay

Byron Bay, New South Wales named for John Byron, who was grandfather of the Byron who arrived in Hilo in 1825.

Huc-Mazelet Luquiens

The Bishop Museum (Honolulu, Hawaii), the Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), the Hilo Art Museum (Hilo, Hawaii), the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), and the Yale University Art Gallery are among the public collections holding prints by Huc-Mazelet Luquiens.

Keaau Middle School

It was built in 1902 to avoid overcrowding at Waiakea Intermediate School in Hilo and Pahoa High and Intermediate School in Pahoa.

Keoloewaakamauaua

His brother Kaupeʻepeʻe was slain by Kana and Nikeu-Kalohe, sons of Hina, chiefess of Hilo who had eloped to Molokaʻi with his brother.

KIPA

KHNU, a radio station (620 AM) licensed to serve Hilo, Hawaii, which held the call sign KIPA from 1947 to July 2008

Kīwalaʻō

His half-brother Keōua Kuahuʻula escaped and established himself in Kau and parts of Puna while their uncle Keawemauhili added parts of Hamakua and Puna to his district of Hilo.

KWHE

KWHE's signal is relayed on satellite stations KWHD (channel 14) in Hilo and KWHM (channel 21) in Wailuku.

Scouting in Guam

Although being absorbed into the Direct Service Council in 1956, the Chamorro Council was chartered in 1970, before merging with Kilauea Council (based in Hilo, Hawaii) into the Aloha Council of Honolulu in 1973.

Shipman House

W. H. Shipman House, Hilo, Hawaii, listed on the NRHP on the island of Hawaii


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