According to scientists AND logic ( erosion of existing islands) the first island to surface was in all likelihood the island of Niihau and then in chronolocigal order going southeast the Big Island.
By volcanic activity.
By volcanic activity.
The oldest Hawaiian islands are Kauai and Niihau, which are believed to have formed around 5 million years ago. These islands are located in the northwest part of the Hawaiian island chain and are considered the oldest because they were the first to emerge from the volcanic activity that formed the islands.
Probably 700,000 t0 1,000,000 years ago.
The Hawaiian Islands are formed from a chain of volcanoes, some still active.
The Hawaiian Islands were formed and are still being formed right now by volcanic activity.
The Island of Hawaii is the youngest of the "main" islands.
The island is referred to by locals as the Big Island. The island is called Hawaii and is the most recently formed island on the chain.
the first island is Hilo and it fromed in 1959
hot spot volcanoes such as the Hawaiian island chain.
It is thought that volcanoes formed the Hawaiian islands.
Due to volcanic eruptions forming islands along a weakness in a long line of the sea bed, the Hawaiian Island chains was formed.