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	Niihau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Niʻihau is not the geologically oldest of the eight main islands, contrary to popular belief.
		Niʻihau is the only one of the Hawaiian islands on which the Hawaiian language is still the main form of communication.
		Many of the residents of Niʻihau were employees of the Niʻihau Ranch until the Robinson family finally had to shut the operation down in 1999; it had not been profitable for most of the 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Niihau (860 words)

	Niihau - Simple English Wikipedia
		Niihau is the smallest of the inhabited islands of Hawaii, in the United States.
		Niihau is the only one of the Hawaiian islands where the Hawaiian language is the main language.
		Niihau shells and the jewelry made from them are very popular.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Niihau (316 words)

	Alohacyberian of Hawaii - Niihau - Travels with Keith Martin
		Niihau is surrounded by 50 miles of coastline and the highest elevation is Paniau at 1,281 above sea level.
		Niihau is privately owned and was purchased from King Kamehameha V in 1864 by a Scottish family, the Sinclairs, who had emigrated from Scotland to New Zealand and again to Hawaii.
		Niihau was the only island that witnessed Japanese military occupation and no American forces ever came to the rescue of the islanders.
	home.att.net /~keith.martin/vNiihau.html (803 words)

	Niihau Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kauai, Niihau and Kaula are the eroded emergent portions of three shield volcanoes that stand in 2000 fathoms (12000 feet) of water.
		To the southwest, the Niihau is separated from Kaula by water depths of 600 fathoms (3600 ft).
		Niihau is the seventh largest of the eight main Hawaiian Islands with an area of 70 square miles (18,650 ha.).
	cramp.wcc.hawaii.edu /Study_Sites/Niihau (1651 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / NIIHAU a shoal of time
		Niihau came under the jurisdiction of a Yankee missionary at Waimea, just across the channel on, Kauai, and a beginning was made in teaching the people to read and understand the Scriptures.
		Niihau’s diet in the postwar years was overstocked with canned goods and bottled soda, along with the traditional fish and poi, turkeys and hogs hunted on the island, rice in enormous quantities brought from Kauai, and vegetables grown in plots at Puuwai village.
		In drought years Niihau wool, one of the big exports, was at a disadvantage in a competitive market: it was burrladen and stained by dry red dust; and because of lack of water it could not be washed before export.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1963/6/1963_6_48.shtml (5572 words)

	Hawaii - Niihau Hawaii - the Official Hawaii Vacation Travel Information
		Niihau Hawaii is a small island west of Kauai encompasses some seventy-two square miles and remains largely in a pristine, natural state, mostly because it’s privately owned.
		Niihau was originally purchased from King Kamehameha V by Elizabeth Sinclair in 1864.
		Niihau is the only island that voted against statehood in 1959, it remains a final refuge for Hawaiians uninterested in the modern way of life.
	www.hawaiipoint.com /pages/niihau.html (361 words)

	Island of Niihau on polihale.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Niihau, Hawaii's Forbidden Island, is in the distant background.
		This is the view from the upper deck of the Kekaha Beach House in Kekaha, island of Kauai, Hawaii.
		This is the view from the master bedroom of the Waimea House in the Waimea Heights neighborhood on the westside of Kauai, Hawaii.
	polihale.com /display/60320 (2010 words)

	Hawaiian Art Network \| Artists \| Shell Lei Makers of Niihau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Forbidden Island, Niihau is a private island, off the coast of Kauai, owned by the Robinson family.
		Niihau residents used shells for ornaments because they were long lasting and the arid island had few flowers.
		To be a true Niihau necklace, it should be finished with a cowrie shell clasp (connected with hook/eye), although today they sometimes use metal barrel clasps to save time and lack of available cowries.
	www.hawaiian-art.net /island_of_niihau.php (1048 words)

	SurferMag Message Boards: Niihau? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Niihau came up, and he says it is a Hawaiian-only society, and that you need special permissions to even visit.
		Niihau is a private island, there are Heli tours and such but nothin else...
		Niihau and Kauai are the oldest within the eight (8) Island chain with the Big Island of Hawaii being the youngest.
	forum.surfermag.com /forum/showflat.php?Number=776149 (1100 words)

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		The seizure of the little island of Niihau by a Japanese pilot who ran out of gas on this way back to his carrier and had to crash land, is one of the most dramatic things to occur during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941.
		On Niihau Island an American-born Japanese actively assisted the Japanese pilot in a 6-day reign of terror, while another Japanese resident of the little island, himself a native-born Japanese and a non-U.S. citizen, also was swept up in the business but managed to extricate himself from the power that his countryman had over him.
		Niihau is the westernmost island of the Hawaiian group, and in 1941 was privately owned by the Robinson family, a prosperous and well-known name in the islands, who ran cattle and sheep on it.
	www.pacshiprev.com /PacificArchivesSubDirectory/page21.html (544 words)

	Niihau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A privately owned virtual time capsule, Niihau is the only island left in the state of Hawaii where Hawaiian is still the primary language.
		Niihau is normally very arid, but heavy rains in the winter allowed quite a lot of plants to thrive and turn the normally red island a vibrant green.
		Niihau is the perfect place for beachcombing, as the photos above illustrate.
	www.qsl.net /ah6hy/niihau.html (548 words)

	Niihau
		The island of Niihau, located eighteen miles southwest of Kaua'i, is deliberately cut off from the influences of the outside world.
		Niihau is twenty-three miles long, three to six miles wide, and relatively flat.
		Niihau is also known for the tiny seashells that residents gather off the beaches and string into beautiful leis.
	www.janeresture.com /hawaii_niihau (621 words)

	Niihau Island: The Island
		Accessible via Niihau Helicopters you can now escape for half a day to this island as a guest of the owners and spend some time on this beautiful and pristine island.
		Lacking the flowers the other islands are now famous for, Niihau Island has become famous for their beautiful leis crafted from the tiny shells which populate their beaches.
		Niihau Island is located 18 miles from the island of Kauai across the often-times rough Kaulakahi Channel.
	65.61.16.97 /Niihau/TheIsland.asp (390 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News
		For five generations, every man in Niihau's small native Hawaiian community could depend on full employment on the ranch and believed all of their babies (the boys at least) would grow up to be cowboys.
		In persuading her to buy it from him for $10,000 in gold, King Kamehameha IV failed to point out the previous two years had been the wettest in memory and that Niihau normally is subject to severe droughts that, then and now, force the residents to move to Kauai until the rains return.
		The unpolluted water is responsible for the luster of the shells used in the famous Niihau leis.
	starbulletin.com /1999/05/14/news/story1.html (1675 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features
		Dow and a group of Niihau women have been traveling from island to island for five years on a mission to educate consumers and to stress the importance of keeping Niihau shell lei craftsmanship separate from all other forms of shell jewelry, just as Kona coffee has an identity separate from other islands' coffee products.
		Niihau's history of private ownership meant that the isolated indigenous Hawaiian population became keepers of the craft of Niihau shell lei-making.
		Dow saw her first Niihau shell jewelry in 1958, when she says her parents were lucky enough to travel to the Forbidden Island.
	starbulletin.com /2004/05/17/features/story1.html (1009 words)

	U.S. DIVE TRAVEL: Kauai Sands Hotel, Bubbles Below Diving.
		Niihau diving is simply a privilege reserved only for the hearty adventurer who has a lot of luck with weather.
		Niihau diving is seriously weather dependant and must be arranged with expert care, since the Kaulakahi Channel between Kauai and Niihau can offer some awesome swells when the winds kick up from the North.
		Niihau is an island that's not for everybody.
	www.usdivetravel.com /R-HAWAII-Kauai.html (2691 words)

	Kauai Drive Guides: Hawaii's Indigenous Gems, Niihau Shell Leis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Niihau’s entire population numbers about 200 Native Hawaiians, and it was in this isolated community that an incredible art form would be born, and thrive even more following Western contact in the 1700s.
		Niihau was just a shadowy silhouette on the horizon, almost foreign.
		It was evident a Niihau shell jewelry renaissance had taken hold, as privately held lei, tucked away for years, were brought to our seven Niihau lei crafters.
	www.driveguidemagazines.com /gems.html (888 words)

	Aloha-Hawaii.com: Niihau: The Forbidden Island
		While open to visitors on a limited basis (via helicopter tours), Niihau is a private island that has largely remained unburdened by the influences of the outside world.
		Because most of Niihau is low and dry, the island is too arid to be used for cultivation.
		Niihau’s beaches are famous for their rare shells.
	www.aloha-hawaii.com /hawaii/niihau (423 words)

	NIIHAU SACRED SITES and Power Spots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Niihau is 70 square miles in area and is located 17 miles off the southwestern coast of Kauai.
		It is called "The Forbidden Isle" because it is private property, and not because the Hawaiians there still live in primitive conditions.
		Since photos of Niihau are rare, we will include various shots taken during a trip by Serge Kahili King.
	www.sergeking.com /Hsites/niihau/niihau.htm (72 words)

	Eavesdropping at the edges of Niihau
		Yet if you've long admired Niihau from afar -- squinting into the horizon from Kauai's west side, poring over exhibits in the tiny Kauai Museum or perhaps buying one of the island's highly prized shell leis -- a tantalizing glimpse is better than none at all.
		Niihau was the second Hawaiian island his ships visited; unfortunately, it was also the first where his men could spend a night ashore, and so the tragic spread of venereal disease began.
		After a stray Japanese pilot landed on Niihau during the attack on Pearl Harbor, was captured by locals, escaped and then was killed during his recapture, the Niihauans were briefly the stuff of headlines.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2005/03/20/TRGETBQD5V1.DTL (2371 words)

	REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR and The Battle of Niihau. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For generations, the little group of Hawaiians on Niihau have quietly tended their sheep and cattle, unmindful of the cares of the rest of the world.
		Yet when America was attacked, this most remote and tranquil of all her communities was brought into the battle on the very first day.
		Posted December 4, 2001, in grateful remembrance of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians of all races and religions who toiled and fought and sacrificed their lives in World War II in order that we might live in peace and freedom.
	www.the-catbird-seat.net /PearlHarbor.htm (3055 words)

	Niihau articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Niihau at Amazon.com Buy books at Amazon.com and save.
		Niihau, privately owned since 1864 when it was purchased from the Hawaiian kingdom
		Hawaii HAWAII [Hawaii], 50th state of the United States, comprising a group of eight major islands and numerous islets in the central Pacific Ocean, c.2,100 mi (3,380 km) SW of San Francisco.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Niihau (116 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Others in the Hawaiian community see the island as a last precious stronghold of their language and culture and seek to give its residents self-determination.
		Still others view the Robinsons as colonialists -- two suggesting a radical move, that the state condemn Niihau and remove it from the Robinsons' hands.
		There is little doubt that the pressures of the modern world soon will intrude on the insulated island.
	starbulletin.com /97/07/14/features/story1.html (174 words)

	Niihau Kauai forbidden Island - Blue Dolphin Charters whale watching and sailing cruises to the Na Pali Coast - Napali ...
		Niihau Kauai forbidden Island - Blue Dolphin Charters whale watching and sailing cruises to the Na Pali Coast - Napali Coast, Hawaii.
		The Forbidden Island of Niihau, twenty miles west of Kauai, is steeped in legend and shrouded in mystery.
		On Niihau resides the last vestige of true Hawaiian culture in a primitive environment without electricity or plumbing, with Hawaiian spoken as the primary language
	www.kauaiboats.com /niihau (100 words)

	Niihau Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This basic map shows you the main road on the Island of Niihau.
		This Island is privately owned so unless your invited by someone who lives on the island, do not expect to be visiting the island anytime soon Niihau is about 70 square miles(182 square km), with about 230 people living there.
		Niihau is the only Island where Hawaiian is the spoken as a first language.
	www.hana-maui.com /maps/niihau.html (82 words)

	POST OFFICE IN PARADISE - Town Postmarks: Islands of Kauai and Niihau
		Kauai, mostly lush and wet, was dubbed the "Garden Isle" by 19th Century voyagers in search of vegetables and fruits to replenish supplies.
		Niihau was known then for its sweet potatoes.
		Kauai's center is a region of steep, wet cliffs climbing to a summit thought to be the wettest place on earth.
	www.hawaiianstamps.com /iskauai.html (851 words)

	NIIHAU SAFARIS INC. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Niihau Safarishas the exclusive hunting rights on the 72 square mile island owned since 1864 by one family.
		At Niihau Safaris, we are dedicated to the principles of good game management, fair chase hunting, and support good game management around the world.
		Hunting on Niihau is done according to the principles of free chase.
	homepages.hawaiian.net /niihauisland/safaris.html (528 words)

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