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Pu`uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park

Detailed Description

This wild burrow lives in a small park on the shore of Kealakekua Bay, just north of Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park. The Captain Cook Memorial is on the coastal headlands on opposite side of the bay. It was the location that Captain Cook and four other English sailers were killed in a skirmish near the point on the bay on February 14, 1779 (Rhodes and Greene, 2001).

Sources/Usage

Public Domain.