Oʻahu in Hawaii

30 January 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  13 minutes

Pearl Harbor - USS Arizona Memorial © US Navy - Petty Officer 1st Class James E. Foehl

Pearl Harbor – USS Arizona Memorial © US Navy – Petty Officer 1st Class James E. Foehl

Oʻahu, known as “The Gathering Place“, is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands; however, it is the most populous of the islands in the U.S. state of Hawaii, and is the home of Honolulu International Airport. The state capital, Honolulu, is on Oʻahu’s southeast coast. Including small close-in offshore islands such as Ford Island and the islands in Kaneohe Bay and off the eastern (windward) coast, it has a total land area of 596.7 square miles (1,545.4 km2), making it the 20th largest island in the United States. The island is home to about 977,000 people (approximately 72% of the resident population of the state, with approximately 81% of those living on the “city” side of the island).   read more…

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