- Kukuipahu, 2015
2620 hits
Note Haleakalā in the distance - Area 1629 - enclosure
2022 hits
A possible house site - Area 1629 - enclosure
1901 hits
A possible house site - Area 1639 - damaged enclosure and small platform
2030 hits - Area 1736 - small platform
1831 hits
Identified as feature K on a tag left at the site - Platform in area 1746, Kalaeloa, 2001
2379 hits
This platform was bulldozed by the US Army in a cleanup of an area contaminated by lead shotgun pellets at a recreational trap and skeet shooting range. Army archaeologists maintained that this is not a Hawaiian cultural structure. It was taken apart prior to being bulldozed. No bones or other cultural artifacts were found inside. - Area 1745 - enclosure
1954 hits
Possibly a house site - Area 1746 - damaged platform
1902 hits
US Navy archaeologists maintain that these were not Hawaiian pre-contact structures. They were bulldozed to clear lead shotgun pellets from an area used as a trap and skeet shooting range - even though they lay at the far periphery, and even though the area was designated as one of the very last preserves for the endangered Oʻahu akoko plant. In this image a damaged platform lies adjacent to an intact platform - shown in another image in this album. - Area 1752 - heiau
1927 hits
The upright stone at 1752. The flat kohe shown in another image lies on the other side of the upright. - Area 1752 - a nearby paved ala
1932 hits
A puzzling linear section of low pavement - Area 1752 - heiau
1911 hits
The exterior of the thick, low wall that forms the principal enclosure at the heiau. - Area 1752 - small platform or ahu
1965 hits
A small ahu mauka of the heiau enclosure - Area 1752 - upright
2054 hits
The upright stone at the heiau - Area 1752 - small platform or ahu
1994 hits - Area 1752 - small platform or ahu
1913 hits - Area 1753 - walled sinkhole
2030 hits
Possibly a water source - Area 1753- ala
1934 hits - Area 1753 - ala
2434 hits
One of the upright stones at the ala, in a section now cleared of all vegetation. - Near the old base commissary - wall section
1958 hits
Note the use of upright slabs in the wall construction. This area contained numerous sites but may have been bulldozed by a company leasing the land from DHHL. - Near runway - large platform
1907 hits
This platform lies in an area with the remains of WW II quonset huts, and with the remains of other pre-contact Hawaiian structures. Note the large stone curbing around the bottom and the use of large slabs on the top. - Small ahu (shrine) near the main gate, Kalaeloa, 2001
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This shrine, visited in 2001 with cultural anthropologist Marion Kelly, was destroyed by the US Army in order to construct a large FBI building. Army archaeologists maintain that this is not a Hawaiian cultural site and that it was built on land that had been previously bulldozed during WWII for the construction of quonset huts. - Main Gate ahu
1910 hits
A small ceremonial structure with one prominent upright stone, now bulldozed in the construction of the FBI building near the Main Gate of the Kalaeloa / /Barbers Point base. US Navy archaeologists maintained that this was not a pre-contact Hawaiian structure, based on a sketch showing WW II bulldozing in the area. The foundations of a WW II quonset hut lay a few hundred feet to the west. - Unusual zig-zag structure, Kalaeloa, 2008
2386 hits
This puzzling zig-zag structure barely escaped destruction by an organization that leased an adjacent parcel for car racing. Not visible in the image are upright stones forming the walls of the structure - a traditional construction technique in Tahiti sometimes also seen at Kalaeloa. Some archaeologists maintain that this is a modern military training structure, based on the presence of barbed wire. - Raceway park, Coral Sea Rd.
2023 hits
A section of the wall enclosing a sandy area of perhaps two acres at the intersection of Coral Sea and Tripoli Rd. The organization leasing this land from DHHL bulldozed the mauka section of the enclosure. - Area 1736 - upright stone
1910 hits
This stone was first identified and photographed when the archaeological survey crew had already cleared sites in the area and was recording features. Amazingly, this ahu had not been cleared, and is probably not listed in the feature inventory for this complex. - South Hālawa - B33 / B66
1793 hits
One of two heiau quite close together in a complex mauka of the prison - South Hālawa - B33 / B66
1837 hits
One of two heiau quite close together in a complex mauka of the prison - North Hālawa 75
1959 hits
Large pōhaku on an area that appears paved with small stones - ʻiliʻili. A possible cultural feature. - South Hālawa 85
2295 hits
A large heiau on two levels, defined by faced terraces on three sides and a low wall at the rear. Ti grows at several places on the earth platforms. A large, flat pōhaku sits on the upper platform. The site is being cleared by volunteer crews once a month. - North Hālawa 75 - Pueo (owl) on the cliff face
1884 hits - 15 5 Halawa honu
1940 hits - Kalakoi, Waimea, 2015
2315 hits
Uncle Rudy Mitchell identified this pōhaku as Kalakoi or Ahuʻena. Its companion Kū is on the other side of Waimea Bay. Both are fish lookouts - and gods. - AAA - Hawaiian Government map, 1876
1875 hits - Kalakū
1886 hits
Rudy Mitchell identified this pōhaku as Kalakū, a fish god and fish lookout point on the north side of Waimea Bay. It sits on an obscure ledge overlooking the bay. The corresponding pōhaku sits on the opposite side of the Bay, Kalakoi. The stones are also called Kū and Ahuena. - Puʻu Makani Heiau
1783 hits
Only ʻili ʻili (small stone paving) remains at Puʻu Makani. Since the heiau sites on a steep slope directly above the road, one might suspect that its larger stones were rolled downhill to create the bed of the highway, as happened at other heiau elsewhere on Oʻahu. - 15 10 Keaiwa1i
1939 hits - 15 10 Keaiwa2i
1872 hits - 15 10 Waimanalo DeFries Pohaku
1904 hits - 15 10 Waimanalo Ekoulu Pohaku
2061 hits - 15 10 Waimanalo Ekoulu Pohaku2
1940 hits - Kahua, 2010
2418 hits - Double upright, Moaʻula Iki, 2015
2183 hits
This lies along the trail to the summit, on the right as one ascends. A very large, very flat pōhaku lies just below, out of sight. Small stone ʻiliʻili fills the gap between the two uprights. It is possible that there is a deliberate astronomical alignment created by the two uprights. - A post marking the limit of UXO sub-surface clearance, 2015
2460 hits
Thousands of posts like this mark the limit of sub-surface ordnance clearance. Beyond the posts, only the surface has been cleared of UXO (unexploded ordnance). - Kanu uka, 2015
2097 hits
Volunteers planting natives in the hardpan. Because it has not been cleared for UXO below the surface, all planting here must take place above the ground. Haleakalā is in the distance. - Lae Kealaikahiki, 2015
2196 hits
Its name translates as "the path to far lands." The traditional departure place for voyages to the south. Modern sailors confirm that winds and currents make this an ideal place for departure. According to some accounts, the prominent line of pōhaku that used to extend out into the sea were used as target practice and destroyed by the US Navy. - Kanu kahakai, 2015
2348 hits
Planting ʻakiʻaki grass to control beach erosion at Hanakanaia Bay - Kanu uka, 2015
2016 hits
Volunteers planting natives in the hardpan. Because it has not been cleared for UXO below the surface, all planting here must take place above the ground. Haleakalā is in the distance. - Irrigated planting beds on the hardpan
2208 hits
All replanting in the upland region must be done above ground because of the danger of UXO (unexploded ordnance) just below the surface. - Native plants thriving in erosion gullies on the hardpan
2133 hits
Native vegetation planted in erosion gullies. Haleakalā lies in the distance. - Kanu kahakai, 2015
2812 hits
Planting ʻakiʻaki grass to control beach erosion at Hanakanaia Bay