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Hawaii Travel Guide
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Hawaii's natural history: ...beneath the Pacific Ocean is a section of Earth's crust that for millions of years has moved, a few inches per year, to the northeast... Below this moving "Pacific Plate" is a stationary jet of molten rock (called the Hawaiian Hot Spot) which has blown through the Earth's crust to create a series of undersea volcanoes.
The tallest of these mountains -- rising as high as six miles from the ocean floor -- are better known as the Hawaiian Islands.
The major islands, from smallest to largest, are Kahoolawe (long used as a bombing range by the U.S. military) ... the privately-owned Niihau ... Lanai ... Molokai ... the Garden Island of Kauai ... Oahu (home of Honolulu, the state capital) ... Maui ... and Hawaii, often called the Big Island.
