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7 unusual facts about Kauai


Illegitimate receiver

On the island of Kauai, females of a species of parasitoid fly, Ormia ochracea, respond to the stridulation mating calls of male field crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus) by locating the crickets and then laying their lethal larvae on them.

Lincoln Laboratory

The Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is one of the ranges supporting experimental and developmental testing of the Ballistic Missile Defense System.

Lost Flight

Most of the principal photography dealing with the stranded passengers and crew was filmed on Kauai.

Namae no Nai Sora o Miagete

A campaign to win a trip to Kauai, Hawaii, where the artwork for the single cover was shot, was launched in July 2004 to celebrate the release of the single.

Queen Emma Party

Kapahei “Judge” Kauai Representative from Kauai-Contracted leprosy and was the leader of the leper colony during the Leper War.

Stitch! The Movie

Having locked Hämsterviel in handcuffs, Lilo, Stitch and Sparky short-circuit Gantu's ship causing it to crash near a waterfall on Kauai.

Wainiha, Hawaii

Wainiha is a land section in the Hanalei district of northern Kauai.


Asymphorodes dimorpha

It is found in Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, Lanai, Hawaii, Nihoa, Necker Island, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Midway, Kure, Wake island, Canton island, Jarvis island, but is probably much more widely distributed in the Pacific.

Charpentiera densiflora

The tree is found only on Kauai, and mainly on the Nā Pali Coast.

Cyanea dolichopoda

This Hawaiian lobelioid was discovered in the Blue Hole, a valley on Kauai near the Wailua River.

Cyanea recta

These are in a few locations on Kauai, including the Makaleha Mountains.

Eric Alfred Knudsen

Knudsen (called "Elika", Hawaiian for "Eric") became known as the "Teller of Hawaiian Tales," when his placid voice could be heard in the Islands over KTOH radio, located on Ahukini Road in Lihue, while he narrated his tales of Hawaiian cowboys, and ghosts, and journeys into the mountains of Kauai, and those legendary times when the Hawaiians and their gods mingled on a daily basis.

Ethanol fuel in Hawaii

Enough ethanol is expected to be made for Kauai's use, but it must be shipped to Oahu for blending and returned for sale .

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.

Gouania meyenii

This shrub grows in dry or moist forest and shrubland habitat in the Waianae Mountains of Oahu and Nā Pali Coast State Park on Kauai.

Helicoverpa hawaiiensis

It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is known from Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, Lanai, Hawaii, Nihoa and Necker Island.

Hyposmocoma malornata

It is endemic to Necker Island, Nihoa, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui and Hawaii.

Isami Doi

His first solo show at the Honolulu Museum of Art took place in April 1929, and featured painted landscapes of the mountains of Kauai as well as fifteen prints.

Japanese submarine I-12

I-12 was sunk by the US minesweeper Ardent and the USCG cutter Rockford on 13 November 1944, 10 days after the sinking of the John A. Johnson, near Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands.

Kadua cookiana

Today there are two populations of the plant in the Hanakoa and Waiahuakua Valleys on the Nā Pali Coast of Kauai, with a total global population of no more than 122 individuals.

Kamakahelei

She was the sovereign of the Island of Kauai at the time Captain James Cook land on the Kauaian shores.

Lysimachia iniki

This plant was discovered in 1992, shortly after Hurricane Iniki tore a specimen off the tall cliffs above Kauai's Wailua River and dropped bits of it where it could be collected.

Rochelle Ballard

The waves in Kauai are considered as some of the best in world and with the encouragement of four-time World Champion and Kauai resident Margo Oberg, she started surfing at 12 years old.

The Castaway Cowboy

Texas cowboy, Lincoln Costain (James Garner), gets "shanghaied" in San Francisco, then jumps ship and washes ashore on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, right into the arms of widow Henrietta MacAvoy (Vera Miles) and her son (Eric Shea) who are struggling to make a living as farmers.

Third voyage of James Cook

In passing and after initial landfall at Waimea harbour, Kauai, Cook named the archipelago the "Sandwich Islands" after the fourth Earl of Sandwich—the acting First Lord of the Admiralty.

Timeline of the 1992 Pacific hurricane season

:*0130 UTC (3:30 pm HST September 11) - Hurricane Orlene made landfall near Waimea, Kauai, Hawaii.


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