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  Lanai (island)
Lanai is one of the seven large islands in Hawaii.
It is separated from the island Molokai by the Kalohi Channel.
Lanai was first seen by Europeans on February 12, 1779 (Captain Clark).
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 Lanai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lānaʻi (IPA: [lɑː nɑʔi]) is the sixth-largest of the Hawaiian Islands.
The island is somewhat circular in shape, with a width of 18 miles in the longest direction.
It is separated from the island of Molokaʻi by the Kalohi Channel to the north, and from Maui by the ʻAuʻau Channel to the east.
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 Lanai | All Lanai's Best   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Lanai was never really meant to handle cattle in any quantity, it was soon over grazed and became a 'desert' island.
Munroe began with reforesting portions of the island, the Cook Island and Norfolk pines are a legacy of Munroe's efforts.
Secluded among decades-old Cook Island pines at an elevation of 1,600 feet, the Lodge exudes the classic elegance of a traditional English country manor and is one of Hawaii's rare inland hotels.
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 Lanai Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Lanai is the sixth largest of the eight main Hawaiian Islands with an area of 36,520 ha.
Lanai Island is the emergent portion of a single volcano.
The south central portion of the island between elevations of 300 m and 600 m is a flat plain known as the Palawai Basin, which was the major pineapple-growing region of the island until recently.
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 Lanai Island, Hawaii
Lanai, the sixth largest island in the Hawaiian archipelago, covers an area of 140sq.miles/363sq.km (18 miles/29km long, 13 miles/21km wide) and measures only half the size of Molokai Island, its closest neighbor.
Lanai enjoys an even climate with an average temperature of 24°C and average rainfall of 291/2in./750mm - on the whole drier than neighboring islands.
The Norfolk pines, typical of Lanai, are grown from seed.
www.planetware.com /hawaii/lanai-island-us-hi-l.htm   (427 words)

  
 Hawaii Holidays - Island of Lanai, Hawaii
Lanai, Hawaii is the sixth largest island in the Islands of Hawaii with easy access from neighboring island Maui.
Lanai is just 25 minutes by air from Honolulu, Hawaii and clearly offers some of the most spectacular diving in all the Hawaiian Islands.
This area of Lanai is extremely rare and is home to a diverse native dryland forest, the last of it's kind in all the Hawaiian Islands.
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 Lanai Index
Lanai, island, central Hawaii, in Maui County, separated from Maui Island by Auau Channel.
Known as the Pineapple Island, it is the sixth largest of the Hawaiian Islands.
Lanai City, in the center, and the western coast port of Kaumalapau are the chief settlements.
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 Lanai Island Trips   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In the 1800s Lanai was purchased by the Dole family and became the major producer for the Dole Pineapple Company.
You can spend the day in a hammock, sipping "Lanai Tais", or snorkel, kayak, bicycle along the coastline, take a tour of historic sites, play volleyball or table tennis, or examine reef specimens in the special "touch tank." The day is yours on Lanai's special desert island hideaway.
The trips to Lanai are among our most popular and should not be missed by anyone who has a love of boating and the ocean.
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 The Aloha Insider: Vacation Guide and Travel Tips On How To Get The Most Out Of Hawaii
The tiny island of Lanai, with its 141 square miles and its population of 2,500, is the smallest and most undeveloped of the major Hawaiian islands.
Friendliness is certainly one of Lanai's attractions: everyone you walk by will say hello to you, and everyone you pass on the road will wave to you, even if it is obvious that you are in a rental vehicle and they have never seen you before.
The island is sheltered from rainy weather by the islands of Molokai and Maui, so the leeward side of the island receives as little as 12 inches of rain per year, and the windward side receives about 40 inches per year, far less than the windward sides of the other islands.
www.theinsider.com /Aloha/Lanai/lanaiOverview.htm   (871 words)

  
 Lanai
Lanai is a timeless island in a sea of change.
Lanai's little known secret is its excellent hunting with long season on axis deer.
Cool and quiet under stately Norfolk and Cook Island pines, the streets are lined with tin-roof homes and old-fashioned stores; three restaurants for breakfast, lunch and dinner; banks-even a police station with a wooden jail in the yard.
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 Adventures in Hawaii on the island Lanai
Lanai was once known as the "Pineapple Island" due to the Dole Pineapple Company owned most of the island and grew pineapple on this island.
It is located at the end of the islands longest stretch of paved road that descends from Ko'ele to the island's beach-lined north coast.
The trailhead is at the Lanai Cemetery outside of Lanai City, past the Lodge at Koele.
www.alohafriendshawaii.com /Lanai.html   (3703 words)

  
 Aloha-Hawaii.com: Lanai
Lanai is the smallest of Hawaii’s inhabited islands, covering 140 square miles.
At one point, the island was producing 75 percent of the world’s pineapple.
For decades, Lanai was celebrated as Hawaii’s flourishing "Pineapple Island." Thousands of acres were dedicated to pineapple, and people came from far and wide to work the fields.
lanai.aloha-hawaii.com /hawaii/lanai   (439 words)

  
 Hawaiiwebsite: Visiting the Island of Lanai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Hawaii's "Secluded Island." Formerly known as the "Pineapple Island," Almost the entire island was until recently a Dole Company pineapple plantation but is now phasing in tourism, and is home to two new world class resorts.
CLIMATE At Lanai City, the average temperature ranges from 66 (°F) to 73 (°F) and the average annual rainfall is 37 inches - a very arid island.
GEOLOGY Lanai (the fourth youngest island in the Hawaiian chain) was formed by a single shield volcano creating a volcanic land mass of rolling tablelands and steep, eroded gorges.
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 Hawaiian Telcom Yellow Pages for Lanai Island Hawaii
Lanai is 13 miles wide and 18 miles long, with only a few miles of paved road.
At Lanai City, the average temperature ranges from 66 (°F) to 73 (°F) and the average annual rainfall is 37 inches - a very arid island.
Lanai has a wide variety of plant, marine and animal life.
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 Best Reasons to Visit Lanai
Lanai’s natural and cultural attractions are spread out over 141 square miles, with mostly unpaved roads, rainforest and pineapple lands, and one town with 3,000 local residents.
Hulopo’e Bay is the center of the island of Lanai’s beach activities and home to ancient fishing village.
We were so impressed with the beauty and peacefulness of the island, as well as the wonderful amenities of the Manele Bay Hotel.
www.hawaiitravelbureau.com /lanai.html   (1287 words)

  
 Island Vacation on Lanai - Vacation Idea.com
The island of Lanai is private and secluded.
If you plan to spend most of your island vacation relaxing on the beach, then Manele Bay Hotel is a good place to stay on Lanai.
The island of Lanai is famous for its two golf courses, the 18-hole Jack Nicklaus-designed Challenge at Manele and the Experience at Koele, designed by Greg Norman and Ted Robinson.
www.vacationidea.com /hawaii/islandvacationlanai.html   (290 words)

  
 Lana'i Island
Eucalyptus trees, fog and Munro Trail jeep road on Mt. Lana'ihale; Island of Lanai, Hawaii.
An old Hawaiian church is all that remains of the village of Keomoku on the northwest coast of Lanai.
Wooden fence and Cook Island pine trees in pasture at Lodge at Koele; Lanai Island, Hawaii.
www.gregvaughn.com /Hawaii/Lanai/photos   (318 words)

  
 Lanai Island Hawaii - Travel Hawaii
The island of Lanai in the Hawaiian islands as seen from space in a NASA photo taken 07/94...(Continue Reading)
Maps of Lanai, Hawaii's Private Island, once known as the Pineapple Island, but now 98% owned by David H. Murdock and home to two of the worlds most elegant resorts and golf courses....(Continue Reading)
The islands of Lanai and Molokai in the Hawaiian islands as seen from space in a NASA photo taken 09/88...(Continue Reading)
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 Expeditions Lanai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Expeditions Lanai offers an inter-island ferry service from Lahaina Harbor, Maui to Manele Harbor on the beautiful island of Lanai.
Lanai is a small island, but it's distinguished by a striking variety of different landscapes, from open plains to white sand beaches to stark, mountainous areas where you can literally see for miles
On a really clear day, you may even be able to see the Big Island of Hawaii brooding in the distance.
www.lanaitours.com   (211 words)

  
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The island's natural and cultural attractions are spread out over 141 square miles, down roads more bumpy than paved, through rain forest and pineapple lands and arid, windswept plains.
In Lana'i's rhythm and scale, it may take an hour to go 12 miles, but the landscape is part of the journey.
From Lana'ihale (the misty summit of an ancient volcano, where five Hawaiian Islands come into clear view) to spectacular Hulopo'e Bay (a marine sanctuary and playground for dolphins, humpback whales and rare sea turtles), Lana'i is a museum without walls, offering 47 miles of dramatic coastline with a wide range of adventure and untouched beauty.
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 Lanai Island Tour information
Lanai is located in the center of the chain of the 6 popular islands and yet, is the most remote and isolated from the 20
Here, rugged landscapes are sprinkled with pineapple fields and surrounded by sea cliffs and few sandy beaches.
The island has been recently opened for visitors and very little lodging is available.
www.tisworld.com /hawaii-inf/lanai-inf.html   (73 words)

  
 Lanai - Resorts in Lanai : Four Seasons Resorts Lanai, Hawaii
On the tiny, pristine island of Lana'i, two
Four Seasons Resort Lana'i at Manele Bay is perched atop a rugged red-lava cliff above a white-sand beach.
Long-coveted destinations, these two properties are currently at varying stages of a significant enhancement programme.
www.lanai-resorts.com   (127 words)

  
 Lanai Hawaii
Lana'i City, the only town on Lanai, was built in the 1920's by Dole Pineapple as the focal...
Lanai Hawaii Hotels - Island of Lanai Lodging Accommodations from...
I moved to the Island of Lanai in 1997 and fell in the with the island because of its natural beauty and quiet...
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 Hawaii Vacation in Lanai City - Hotel Lanai - Lodging near the island of Maui
A historic landmark built in the early 1920's, where all guests are treated to the personal and family-like ambiance one might expect from a country inn.
The Hotel Lanai, built in 1923, by James Dole as lodging for Dole Plantation executives, was the first hotel on Lanai until 1990.
There are many island-wide activities that may be enjoyed while staying at the Hotel Lanai in Lanai City.
www.hotellanai.com   (180 words)

  
 Romantic Getaways and Tropical Island Vacations in Lanai Hawaii   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Romantic Getaways and Tropical Island Vacations in Lanai Hawaii
Romantic Getaways and Tropical Island Vacations in Lanai
Island vacations are the perfect way to relax and recover from the rigors and stress of your everyday working or studying life.
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 Lanai Tours, Lanai Vacation
Fishbowl Tours Hawaii is thought of, by many as an information center and not just as a tour company, providing information about free activities on the islands, bus routes/prices, restaurants, theatres, driving directions, maps, and lots more.
If you are online or in our center and you have a question about anything you are not sure about, feel free to ask us and we will be able to help.
Our tour begins at Pearl Harbor and the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial; from here we cross the Ford Island Bridge for a guided tour of the historic Battleship, the U.S.S Missouri.
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 Lanai Island Hawaii - Trilogy Sail to Manele Bay Beach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Lunch is served on dinner plates with silverware.
On the All Day Discover Lanai Trips we have what is considered in the industry one of the best beach dives in Hawaii.
This shallow water dive (15-40 ft.) in the Hulopoe Marine Preserve is ideal for beginners but is challenging enough for the most advanced scuba enthusiast.
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