Punaluu bay lava coast, Hawaii 1980
Childs, Iraphne R. (1980) Punaluu bay lava coast, Hawaii 1980. [Image]
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Abstract
Punaluu Bay, on the southeastern coast of the Big Island of Hawaii, has a famous black-sand beach formed when molten lava reached the ocean, cooled rapidly and exploded into tiny black fragments that make up the black sand. Once the site of a major traditional Hawaiian settlement, and then a sugar port, Punaluu is now a popular tourist spot and is a refuge for green sea turtles and hawksbill turtles. The Bay waters are fed by a freshwater spring which makes the water cold. This image shows the western part of the bay where the lava flow reached the sea but little black sand has formed.
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Item Type: | Image | ||||||
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Collection: | Asia-Pacific Images: 1970s-1990s | ||||||
Sub-Collection Title: | United States (Hawaii) |
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Date: | 1980 | ||||||
Keywords: | bays; lava | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 16 Oct 2013 13:03 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 29 May 2022 23:59 | ||||||
Copyright Owner: | Copyright Iraphne R. Childs. | ||||||
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Location | 19.13433316, -155.50484798 | ||||||
URI: | https://digitalcollections.qut.edu.au/id/eprint/359 | ||||||
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