What are the most exciting facts about Hawaii?

Answer 1

Having lived in Hawai'i for two years, I know plenty:

• There are eight main islands, several smaller islands, and an underwater volcano some miles off the shore of Ni'ihau that will someday form a new Hawaiian island.
• Ni'ihau, the westernmost of the main islands, is privately owned.
• Oahu, the site of Pearl Harbor, is the most populated of the islands; tourist attractions include Waiamea Falls, the Honolulu Zoo, the Pearl Harbor Memorial museum, and Hanauma Bay, which is full of friendly fishes that visitors can feed.
• Oahu has six exclusive endangered species of snail.
• Kahoolawe, the smallest of the major islands, is wartorn and unpopulated.
• Pineapples are one of Hawai'i's chief exports (my first field trip in kindergarten was to a pineapple farm!)
• High schoolers can take Hawaiian language as an elective class.
• Major island Kauai has the highest annual precipitation rate of anywhere in the world.
• Oceanic Cable broadcasts commercials for Hula classes.
• And last, though probably least, there's a mall in Pearl City, Oahu called PearlRidge, with an Uptown and a Downtown part and a monorail connecting the two.

There's much more to learn about Hawai'i, but you have to go there to find out!

A couple corrections regarding the previous answer:

1) The "hotspot" and underwater volcano is at the south end of the "Big Island" Hawaii, not Ni'ihau which is far northwest near Kaua'i, the oldest large island (and volcanically inactive) of the 132 atolls and islands in the Hawaiian island chain.

2)Kaho'olawe is not populated, but also not "wartorn". It was used by the United States as a target island to practice bombing, but was never a target of war.

3) Pineapple is no longer a major export of the Hawaiian islands as very little is still grown here. The major agricultural crop is sugar cane.

I urge people to take care when answering questions, since it is wrong to mislead people with incorrect answers if WikiAnswers is to be taken seriously. Two years may not be enough time to "know plenty"