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7 unusual facts about Māui


Evalea waikikiensis

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the Hawaiian islands Maui and Oahu.

Māui

Māui (with a long a), as opposed to Maui (with a short a) is the proper name of a mythical demigod on several of the Polynesian islands.

Mike Zagorski

Cycle to the Sun - the longest 36 mile, steepest with the 10,004 feet of climbing, prestigious race from the sea level to the top of Maui's Haleakala Volcano Summit.

Randell Stansfield

Since retiring Stansfield was a consultant for military and civilian contracting, a management executive for a major property management firm in Honolulu, and a small business owner in Maui.

Shirley Marks

The free trip convinces her reluctant fiancé to take the plunge, but he abandons her during a layover, and Hannah arrives on Maui single and alone.

Susan Lewis

Initially more upfront about the situation, Susan invites Mark to join her on holiday in Maui, Hawaii, but is embarrassed when he appears hesitant, and later retracts the offer, feeling she overstepped a boundary.

Tony Takitani

Haruki Murakami was intrigued by the name Tony Takitani when, at a garage sale on Maui, he found a yellow T-shirt that said, "Tony Takitani, House (D)."


2013 Pacific hurricane season

More than 9,000 residences were without electricity across the state, with most outages concentrated in Kihei, Maui, and Puna.

Aloha Airlines Flight 243

--Use the American date format--> a Boeing 737-297 serving the flight suffered extensive damage after an explosive decompression in flight, but was able to land safely at Kahului Airport on Maui.

Apana

James Apana, also known as Kimo Apana, Mayor of the County of Maui in Hawaii from 1999 to 2003

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.

Chalumeau

Additionally, a similar instrument called the xaphoon (also called "Maui bamboo sax" or "pocket sax") was developed by Hawaiian craftsman Brian Wittman.

David Baldwin

David Dwight Baldwin (1831–1912), businessman, educator, and biologist on Maui, Hawaii

Diplazium molokaiense

This fern grows in the moist riparian forests on the slopes of two mountains on Maui, one of which is the volcano Haleakalā.

Dwight Baldwin

David Dwight Baldwin (1831–1912), educator on Maui known as D. Dwight Baldwin

Eddie Kamae

Eddie Leilani Kamae was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and raised both there and in Lahaina, Maui.

Francine Patterson

The Gorilla Foundation has been trying to move from its current home in Woodside, California to Maui, Hawaii.

Governor Cox

Keeaumoku II, a Governor of Maui under the Kingdom of Hawaii, known as "Governor Cox" by foreigners

Helicoverpa hawaiiensis

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

Honoapiilani Highway

Following terrain of the island it circumvents the West side of West Maui connecting Olowalu, Launiupuko, Lahaina, Kahana, through the regions of Kapalua and Honolua, and ending in Honokohau Bay.

Hyposmocoma malornata

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

Joe Bertram

A Democrat, he represented the 11th district in south Maui, which includes the communities of Wailea-Makena and Kihei, his hometown.

Kau High and Pahala Elementary School

It was the first high school established on the Big Island and third high school established in the State after Lahainaluna High School on Maui and President William McKinley High School, formerly Honolulu High School on Oahu.

Kihei

Kihei, Hawaii, census-designated place IN Maui County, Hawaii, United States

Lahaina Banyan Court Park

When Henry Augustus Wise visited in 1848, he met James Young (1797–1851), then Governor of Maui, who was living in the fort.

Marc Brownstein

In addition to Electron and Conspirator, Marc also is involved in (in no particular order) Sucker Punch, The Maui Project, JM2, Laverneous Cool, The Join, The Brain Damaged Eggmen, and most recently the project Younger Brother with psy trance phenom Simon Posford.

Maui Academy of Performing Arts

MAPA was founded in 1974 as the Maui Youth Theater by Linda Takita (daughter of Frankie Yankovic).

Mauiloa

::Not to be confused with Mauna Loa or Maui.

Michael J. Kolb

Most of his recent contributions have been in the area of "social stratification and the political economy of the Maui Kingdom in Hawaii, and the rise of complexity in early Iron Age Sicily."

Michael Walther

Michael participated in a project studying several of the rarest birds on Earth, including the Maui Akepa, Maui Nukupu'u, Poouli, Maui Parrotbill and the Crested Honeycreeper.

Pan-STARRS

The first Pan-STARRS telescope, PS1, is located at the summit of Haleakalā on Maui, Hawaii, and went online on December 6, 2008, under the administration of the University of Hawaii.

Peahi, Hawaii

On 30 March 2012, big wave surfer and adventure athlete, Jeff Rowley was a finalist in the Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards 2011/2012, in the Ride of the Year category with his rides at Jaws Peahi in Maui, Hawaii on 30 January 2012, placing him 4th place in the world of elite big wave surfers and commanding the respect of the big wave surfing community.

On 30–31 January 2012, Jeff Rowley and a number of international big wave surfers including Greg Long, Shaun Walsh and Albee Layer spent two days paddle-surfing Jaws, on the Hawaiian island of Maui, as part of their ongoing big-wave paddle-in program at the deep-water reef, further cementing the new frontier of paddle-in surfing at Jaws.

Podaxis pistillaris

In the Hawaiian Islands, it is frequently encountered along roadsides and in disturbed areas on the dry sides of the islands, especially in the Kona area of Hawaii and the Kihei area of Maui.

Rene Sylva

In 1976, Sylva became the caretaker of the Maui Zoological and Botanical Gardens in Kahului, Hawaii, which later became known as the Maui Nui Botanical Gardens.

Rolling Down to Old Maui

Rolling Down to Old Maui (Roud 2005) is a traditional sea song.

Rongo

In Ngāti Awa traditions, Rongo is a son of Tāne and father of the kūmara, but a man named Rongo-māui travels to the star Whānui, obtains the kūmara and returns to Earth with it.

Semyon Bilmes

Semyon Bilmes (born 1955) is an Azerbaijani-American painter and the founder and instructor of The Ashland Academy of Art, in Ashland, Oregon, United States and Atelier Maui, in Maui, Hawaii United States.

Sheila Sondergard

Sheila Sondergard (born April 24, 1980) is a singer-songwriter, born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Maui, Hawaii, the Black Hills of South Dakota, and Central America.

Small-billed Moa-nalo

It was described in 1991 from subfossil material collected in September 1982 by Storrs Olson, Helen James and others, from the Auwahi Cave on the southern slopes of Haleakalā, on the island of Maui.

Spago

Additional Spagos have opened at The Forum Shops at Caesars on the Las Vegas Strip, at Four Seasons Resort Maui (Maui, Hawaii in 2001), and as the Spago Beaver Creek in the Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch in Avon, Colorado.

Stewart Island / Rakiura

The original Māori name, Te Punga o Te Waka a Maui, positions Stewart Island / Rakiura firmly at the heart of Māori mythology.

Tāwhaki

In a legend committed to manuscript by Mohi Ruatapu of Ngāti Porou in 1971 (Reedy 1993:25-33, 126-134), Tāwhaki is a descendant of Māui.

Terry Albritton

From 1990 to 2004, he was a teacher and assistant football coach at St. Anthony High School and was also a personal trainer on Maui for professional athletes, including Shane Victorino of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Tevita Finau

Born in Hamilton, New Zealand, to Tolu and Takinima Finau, he lived in Maui until he was eight, in Tonga from years 8 to 12, and in Hawaii until he finished high school.

The Gorilla Foundation

Since the 1990s, the Foundation has been raising money to move their operation from its sole location in Woodside, California, to a new ape preserve in Maui.

Vibora Luviminda

The Vibora Luviminda conducted the last labor strike of an ethnic nature in the Hawaiian Islands against four Maui sugar plantations in 1937, demanding higher wages and dismissal of five foremen.

William C. Tauber

After attending NIU he entered the hotel and travel industry which ultimately lead to purchasing and operating his own hotel in Kihei, Maui, Hawaii.


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