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On the southwestern coast of the Big Island of Hawaii lies a crescent-shaped bay about a mile across. The name of the bay is Kealakekua (pronounced key-ah-la-ke-ku-ah) Bay. Kealakekua Bay is famous as the place where British explorer Capt. James Cook was killed by Hawaiian islanders in 1779.
The bay is also famous from a geological perspective in that it was formed about 110,000 years ago when a ch...
On the southwestern coast of the Big Island of Hawaii lies a crescent-shaped bay about a mile across. The name of the bay is Kealakekua (pronounced key-ah-la-ke-ku-ah) Bay. Kealakekua Bay is famous as the place where British explorer Capt. James Cook was killed by Hawaiian islanders in 1779.
The bay is also famous from a geological perspective in that it was formed about 110,000 years ago when a ch...
