What is the distance of the Hawaiian islands?

Answer 1

According to Marion Kelly, "Changes in Land Tenure in Hawaii, 1778-1850," Master's thesis (Pacific Islands Studies), University of Hawaii, 1956, p. 1, the greatest single distance between any two of the larger Hawaiian Islands is the eighty miles from Kaua'i to O'ahu, while the distances between adjacent islands average twenty-five miles or less. Except for certain wide and dangerous channels that limited communication in some directions, the earliest inhabitants were able to voyage among most islands of the group with relative ease by paddling or sailing canoes.

Answer 2

Using satellite data, we detected a wind wake trailing westward behind the Hawaiian Islands for 3000 kilometers, a length many times greater than observed anywhere else on Earth. This wind wake drives an eastward ocean current that draws warm water from the Asian coast 8000 kilometers away, leaving marked changes in surface and subsurface ocean temperature. Standing in the path of the steady trade winds, Hawaii triggers an air-sea interaction that provides the feedback to sustain the influence of these small islands over a long stretch of the Pacific Ocean

Answer 3

It depends on where you're measuring them from.

Answer 4

Roughly 1500 miles