Kauaʻi

Kauai English Proper noun en Kauai. en 2004 Robert D. Craig Menehune Handbook of Polynesian Mythology Handbooks of World Mythology Santa Barbara, Calif. ABC-CLIO chapter 3 (Deities, Themes, and Concepts) 171 https://books.google.com/books?id=YTLXAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Water+Lead)+on+the+island+of%22 1-57607-894-9 One of the most remarkable structures attributed to the menehune is the Menehune Ditch (sometimes called Ola’s Water Lead) on the island of Kauaʻi, a ditch that brings water from Waimea River to the taro patches on the other side of the mountain, some six miles away. en 2010 w:Patrick Vinton Kirch Sources for Reconstructing Contact-Era Hawaiʻi How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawaiʻi Berkeley, Calif. w:University of California Press chapter 2 (Hawaiian Archaic States on the Eve of European Contact) 31 https://books.google.com/books?id=wuqxd88MLYkC&pg=PA31 978-0-520-26725-1 Samuel Kamakau, a bit younger than David Malo (he was born in 1815), was also a Lahainaluna student and his family traced its descent from the priestly class of Oʻahu and Kauaʻi. en 2014 Anne J. Jefferson; Ken L. Ferrier; J. Taylor Perron; Ricardo Ramalho Controls on the Hydrological and Topographic Evolution of Shield Volcanoes and Volcanic Ocean Islands Karen S. Harpp; Eric Mittelstaedt; Noémi d’Ozouville; David W. Graham The Galápagos: A Natural Laboratory for the Earth Sciences Geophysical Monograph 204 Washington, D.C. w:American Geophysical Union; Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. section 4 (Phenomena driving landscape evolution), subsection 3 (Precipitation rate affects erosion and soil development) 1 193 https://books.google.com/books?id=TW0HBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA193 1 978-1-118-85241-5 There is a large difference in timescale between the modern precipitation rates in Figure 10.5 and the paleoprecipitation rates that helped shape Kauaʻi’s topography over the past 5 Myr, as there is in any study that links long-term landscape evolution to modern climate measurements. Hawaiian Pronunciation Proper noun haw proper noun haw island s/Hawaii c/USA Kauai Descendants en Kauai 1 1