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Gos external 9.7 cracked9/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Navy ended live-fire training exercises on Kahoʻolawe in 1990, and the whole island was transferred to the jurisdiction of the state of Hawaii in 1994. ![]() During World War II and the following decades, Kahoʻolawe was used as a training ground and bombing range by the Armed Forces of the United States. Kahoʻolawe has always been sparsely populated, due to its lack of fresh water. More than one quarter of Kahoʻolawe has been eroded down to saprolitic hardpan soil, largely on exposed surfaces near the summit. ![]() Kahoʻolawe is relatively dry (average annual rainfall is less than 65 cm or 26 in) because the island's low elevation fails to generate much orographic precipitation from the northeastern trade winds, and Kahoʻolawe is located in the rain shadow of eastern Maui's 10,023-foot-high (3,055 m) volcano, Haleakalā. The highest point on Kahoʻolawe is the crater of Lua Makika at the summit of Puʻu Moaulanui, which is about 1,477 feet (450 m) above sea level. Kahoʻolawe is located about seven miles (11 km) southwest of Maui and also southeast of Lānaʻi, and it is 11 mi (18 km) long by 6.0 mi (9.7 km) wide, with a total land area of 44.97 sq mi (116.47 km 2). Kahoʻolawe (Hawaiian: ), anglicized as Kahoolawe ( / k ɑː ˌ h oʊ oʊ ˈ l ɑː w eɪ, - v eɪ/ ), is the smallest of the eight main volcanic islands in the Hawaiian Islands. ![]()
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