- Kupalaha or Kupalahaʻa
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A natural sea cave with a collapsed roof within Kupalaha Heiau. Twenty years ago, a older resident of Kohala commented that the collapsed roof of this cave was just a small opening in his youth. The name is spelled differently in different sources. If it is Kupalaha, then the name is identical to that of the heiau for the sun, located where the bandstand is now at Kapiʻolani Park, Waikīkī. - Mailekini
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Mailekini is said to have the shape of a whale when viewed from above. It lies just below Puʻukoholā and above a shark heiau under the water in the bay below: Haleokapuni. - Hawea, 2013
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A front / makai alignment at Hawea Heiau. - Unrecorded heiau, 2013
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At Maunalua - Unrecorded heiau, 2013
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At Maunalua - In area 3215 a small imu? It held over 400 dog bones. Bulldozed.
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Three small uprights were nearby and just makai a small ahu with an upright stone. - An enclosure and upright in area 3215, bulldozed
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Over 400 dog bones were found in this small area. Two other uprights stood nearby. - An unrecorded upright stone makai of area 3215, now bulldozed
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This pōhaku was probably not recorded because it lay adjacent to a bulldozer berm made during WWII and because there were no associated cultural features, like a platform. However, the stone had no bulldozer blade marks and appeared to predate the nearby berm. - A small platform and upright in area 4278. It may still be there.
2172 hits - An unusual upright stone in area 3216, bulldozed.
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Note the small stones at the base holding the upright in place. - An ahu in area 3216, bulldozed in creating the ʻEwa Marina footprint
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This site was never recorded in the archaeological report, which is odd, since the area around it was cleared by the archaeology company workers. - A small upright and platform in area 3215, bulldozed
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An archaeologist familiar with sites on Kahoʻolawe island commented that if this had been found there, it would have been identified as a koʻa (fishing shrine). However it was identified as a "temporary habitation" in the Oneʻula archaeological report, along with most of the other 400 listed sites. - A large structure in area 3215, bullldozed to create the footprint of the ʻEwa Marina
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This structure, like almost all of the 400 others at Oneʻula, was designated a "temporary habitation." - The heiau across from Oneʻula Beach Park. It was designated preservation and in theory is still there.
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