need to know 6 things about the formation of the Hawaii island?
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I will take up the whole webpage if I try to explain, so here:\n\nhttp://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/history/main.html\nhttp://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/ASK/hawaiian_hotspot2.html\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/C0114964/islands.htm\nhttp://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/hotspots.html\nhttp://www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/czm/wec/html/mountain/geology/features.htm\n\nA lot of these sites are really for people in elementary, middle and high school, but school is for learning, so I guess that works too, right?
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go to this website, it has lots of good information on the island of Maui (Hawaii)\n\nit also has a link right above the first line of the article to an article about the mythical Polynesian figure Maui (after whom the island was named) if that's what you meant in your question
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Kilauea Volcano (on the Big Island of Hawaii) is not on a plate boundary.  It's formed by a "hot spot" in the middle of the Pacific plate... trick question.\n\nKilauea (along with all the volcanoes in the Hawaiian chain) is a midplate volcano.
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The Goddess of fiery explosions before Hawaiin legend was \n   named Lisai, and the word meant the most confused.  The \n   legend is long and odd, goes like this.  Lisai was the last of\n   a skilled people that lived in mauai, paddled to lanakai and\n   lost their ships, so they could not return.  They found that \n   a previous inhabitant something like the Easter Island giants\n   had destroyed much of the livestock domestics like aliens \n   or uncivilized might do.  So they built new ships and then an\n   angel appeared to Lisai's friend and told her to build a great\n   fire to signal that Peace came to the island.  For she told her\n   your coming here with such great numbers reassures this is\n   a blessed heavenly place and the giants are gone and their\n   spoils are ruined, they will not return and not desecrate again.\n   The fire was a tradition something like for 2000 years on a \n   very high ledge as if signalling for even more to come from \n   other islands.  Then to honor their effort the volcano was \n    named for them, because it appeared with another angel vision\n    and replaced them on their duties.
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Location of the island\nIn episode 3.28, titled "The Pigeon", the note the castaways pin on pigeon's leg says the island is located approximately 300 miles southeast of Hawaii. This general location is referred to in various episodes. \nIn episode 1.18, entitled "X Marks the Spot", viewers were informed that the Pentagon had decided to test a new warhead just above the equator at 140 degrees latitude and 10 degrees longitude. This is actually one of the series' bigger goofs, as latitude is measured north and south of the equator to the poles and only ranges from 0 to 90 degrees. If coordinates were simply reversed — 140 degrees longitude and 10 degrees north latitude, this would place the island approximately 1200 miles southeast of Hawaii. \nA common question is how the castaways, presumably the Professor in particular, were able to determine their location, given that the island itself was supposedly not on any of the Skipper's nautical charts. It is a simple thing to determine one's latitude simply by measuring the angle of the North Star, Polaris, above the horizon at night. Determining longitude is considerably more difficult. They would need to measure the difference between the time of "noon" at their location, and "noon" of some known position, presumably Honolulu. However, if they are indeed only 300 miles to the southeast of Hawaii, the time difference between their "noon" and Honolulu's "noon" would only be about 12 minutes. Such a small differential would be extremely difficult to measure by observation alone, but not necessarily impossible.\n\n[edit]\nA more realistic location of the island\nPerhaps a more interesting question is to ask "where could Gilligan's Island actually be" ? (What follows is an exercise in logic, and it should be noted that the conclusions are completely contrary to assumptions in the show itself. It is merely presented as "food for afterthought".)\n\nThe initial location, 300 miles from Hawaii, is based on the premise that they awoke the next morning shipwrecked on the island. Assuming they left in the afternoon and awoke mid-morning that would be about 20 hours time elapsed. At a cruising speed of 15 knots, they would end up about 300 miles from home. However..........\n\nGiven :\n\nThey set out from Honolulu for a 3 hour tour, and that the weather was good where and when they left. Honolulu is on the Southwest corner of the island of Oahu. They would therefore most likely be cruising on the southwest side of Oahu. \nIt should be safe to assume that the cruise would plan to stay within sight of shore at all times. A 3-hour tour would take them perhaps 15-20 miles out of the harbor, and then back. This assumes a cruising speed of approximately 10-15 knots, which is a reasonable pleasure cruising rate. This is not enough time to leave the waters around Oahu and get to, or near, any other island. Since there is nothing to see away from shore, they must have planned to view Honolulu from the ocean. \nThe storm must have approached from the southwest. Tropical depressions, storms, and hurricanes (called typhoons in the Pacific) are cyclonic storms. That is to say that they spin around a central area (eye). The rotation in the northern hemisphere is counter-clockwise. If the storm approached from any other direction, it would have already been stormy on Oahu before they left. \nTropical storms generally travel from southeast towards the northwest. They generally move at about 5-10 knots While cyclonic storms have been known to deviate from this generality for short periods of time, it is virtually unheard of for one to actually travel 300 miles in the opposite direction of normal travel. To cover that distance would require close to two full days. \nUsing these assumptions, they would have likely been drawn into the storm at about the Two O'clock position in the cyclonic storm. Since th
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Hawaii, Alaska, Alaska, Alaska
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It depends on the volcano.\n\nIf magma - molten rock - is erupted it forms new formations when it cools. On the big island of Hawaii, the volcanic eruptions have added a lot of new land to the island.\n\nIf it is a pyroclastic flow - fast, hot gasses and volcanic debris -  like the one that destroyed Pompeii or Mt. St. Helens, there may not be any new land created and the existing land will be radically altered.\n\nIn general, when a land based volcano erupts, the lava and stone and ash build up around the eruption site into a cone shape.\n\nUndersea volcanos spweing lava also build up, but not in a cone shape. Once the hot rock hits water it starts to cool into large pillow-shaped forms.
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Brouse around this site - it is excellent.\n\nhttp://www.palaeos.com/Earth/Geography/Pangea.htm
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Well maybe it's just me but I dont understand your question but to give you so info on it ...\n \nis not known when Honolulu was first settled by the original Polynesian migrants to the archipelago. Oral histories and artifacts indicate that there was a settlement where Honolulu now stands in the 12th century. However, after Kamehameha I conquered Oʻahu in the Battle of Nuʻuanu Pali, he moved his royal court from the Island of Hawaiʻi to Waikīkī in 1804. His court later relocated, in 1809, to what is now downtown Honolulu.\n\nCaptain William Brown of England was the first foreigner to sail, in 1794, into what is now Honolulu Harbor. More foreign ships would follow, making the port of Honolulu a focal point for merchant ships traveling between North America and Asia.\n\nIn 1845, Kamehameha III moved the permanent capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom from Lāhainā on Maui to Honolulu. He and the kings that followed him transformed Honolulu into a modern capital, erecting buildings such as St. Andrew's Cathedral, ʻIolani Palace, and Aliʻiolani Hale. At the same time, Honolulu became the center of commerce in the Islands, with descendants of American missionaries establishing major businesses in downtown Honolulu.\n\n(Basicly is was an important port)
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Here you go:\n\nhttp://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/msh/
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~I've done some research on this for you.  You have several options.  Here's a few for your perusal:\n\n1.  The Dutch bought Manhattan with glass beads\n\n2.  The Tahitians found Hawaii uninhabited and settled the archipelago\n\n3.  Uncle Sam stole Hawaii by force\n\n4.  My favorite,  the Spanish stood on the beach in Panama and claimed the entire Pacific, then got the Pope to back them up on it, much to the chagrin of the Japanese, Polynesians, Indonesians and everyone in between.\n\n5.  The British told the Maoris that they couldn't eat people anymore and starved them out of New Zealand.\n\n6.  Everybody walked into Sicily and whoever was in occupation at the time said "take it, it's yours", but nobody every wanted to keep it long (choose your island wisely, you can get a lemon)\n\n7.  The Russians simply said the Kurils are ours - not real effective because the Japanese thought it was such a neat idea, they said it too.  Stay tuned, this one's still up for grabs.\n\n8.  A more contemporary approach, the US nuked the snot out of Bikini.   (But Unc Sammy can't quite put up condos yet.  It'll be a few more months before even the cockroaches and rats can return without glowing in the dark and having 6 headed offspring.)\n\n9.    A more practical solution, in keeping with what I presume  to be your budget :  Get a shovel;  go to your back yard; scrape away all the grass and dig a hole about 6 inches deep, level across the bottom (otherwise, shape and dimensions at your discretion);  build numerous piles of dirt, stone and sod throughout the hole at varying heights between 7 and 12 inches; get your garden hose;  turn on the water and fill the hole with water to the top;  give the hole some exotic and spiffy name, call it a country and appoint yourself monarch/despot/president/god (it's your country, be whatever you want to be or can be - like joining the army); send a letter to the State Department and announce that you have declared your independence and have  seceded from the union.  Voila, you now are the proud owner of a group of islands in your own country (until the tanks roll).
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A.Types of Islands: High Islands\nHigh islands are further classified as either continental or oceanic. The continental high islands were once part of the eastern edge of the Australian and Asian continents and are composed of substances similar to their former continents: ancient metamorphic rocks and sediments as well as rocks such as schist, gneiss, clay, and sandstone. Continental islands include New Guinea and most islands of Melanesia, which together account for more than three-fourths of Oceania’s land area.\n\nThe oceanic high islands, sometimes called volcanic islands, are divided from the continental high islands by a north-south boundary of rock formations beneath the sea called the Andesite line. The oceanic islands are composed of volcanic materials that were forced upward through cracks, or fissures, in the ocean floor and from newly deposited sediments. The islands, then, are merely the tops of undersea mountains. Typically, the mountains (and thus the islands) extend in curving chains. These high oceanic islands are common in Polynesia and Micronesia. The island of Hawaii, in Polynesia, contains the peaks Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, which are considered the world’s largest mountains in terms of mass and height above the ocean floor. Although both peaks rise less than 4300 m (14,000 ft) above sea level, they rise about 10,000 m (33,000 ft) from the sea floor. Other examples of high oceanic islands in Polynesia include the Samoas, Tahiti and the Marquesas, and Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. In Micronesia, Kosrae and Pohnpei of the Caroline Islands are examples.
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Billions and billions....\n\nActually, the Hawaiian Archipelago comprises nineteen islands and atolls extending across a distance of 1,500 miles (2,400 km)
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Here's a link for the native species of Hawaii:\n\nhttp://www.hawaii.gov/dlnr/native_species.html
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since that guy is too lazy to type it out and his link is bad, i'll tell you.\n\nsand island is a part of the midway atoll, which is the second northernmost island of the hawaiian archipelago.  it is approximately 1450 miles W-NW of the big island of hawaii, and is almost exactly halfway between north america and asia.
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OK, first of all, inhale. Your body needs oxygen crisis or no crisis.\n\nIt's not that this plate movement re-awakens a bunch of volcanoes, these volcanoes exist in the first place because of the process of subduction, which has been going on--[gasp]--for your entire lifetime and a few billion years before your birth.\n\nThere are several tectonic plates at play in the Pacific. The Pacific Plate seems to be moving in a northwesterly direction, judging by the formation and erosion of the Hawaiian Islands over a hot spot that stays stationary under the moving plate. This plate apparently changed direction abruptly many millions of years ago, judging by the direction of the Emperor Seamounts in relation to the Hawaiian Islands. The first link below shows the other oceanic and continental plates in the world, including those on the Pacific side.\n\nAs a general rule, the oceanic plates in the Pacific are subducted under the surrounding continental plates and into the mantle. If you placed a couple of tables edge to edge and seated a few kindergarten students around each one, the kindergarten students would push on the tables (it's just a thing that they do) until the edge of one managed to slip over or under the edge of the other. \n\nThat's similar to what happens with continental and oceanic plates, too. If an oceanic plate and a continental plate come edge to edge, it's usually the denser seafloor that will go under the other plate. The odds are closer to even if two continental plates collide (as in the collision of the Indian subcontinent with Asia that created the Himalayas) or if two ocean plates are pushing up against each other.\n\nAs far as giant or tsunami waves, we are unable to predict exactly where the next tsunami will come from, but here are three possibilities to keep us up at night:\n\n1) Huge earthquake off the coast of British Columbia/ Washington State/Oregon/ northern California. Such an earthquake hit along 600 miles in January of 1700, and it was about the magnitude of the one that created the Indian Ocean tsunamis in 2004. The 1700 quake also caused devastating tsunamis that did hit Japan and probably hit other places as well. Computer models have shown a series of tsunamis from such a quake hitting the Hawaiian islands on their way across the Pacific, and again on the way back, a "ricochet" effect, if you will. Unfortunately, I think that animation was taken off the web a year or two ago, or I would share it with you here.\n\n2) A volcano on the island of La Palma may collapse, creating a megatsunami hundreds of meters high to scour the coast of Africa and tsunamis of 10-25 meters to batter the eastern coast of the US.\n\n3) A 4,760 cubic mile chunk of the Big Island (Hawaii) falls into the ocean, creating a devastating tsunami around the Pacific. The island of Hawaii suffered two deadly tsunamis in the middle of the last century from earthquakes around the Pacific Rim (Alaska and Chile). The Pacific Rim would be just as vulnerable to tsunami's originating in Hawaii. \n\nSuch "slumps" have occured in Hawaii before. I live on the lower slopes of an extinct volcano that lost half its mass to a landslide a million and a half years ago.
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That is supposed to be how life got to Hawaii, at least until humans showed up.  Hawaii was a barren rock when it came out of the ocean, a few thousand miles from the nearest continent - isolated, to say the least.  The only way life could have gotten there is by the wind blowing an insect or a seed from the mainland across those thousands of miles, landing on Hawaii, and then somehow growing and multiplying.  The odds were obviously miniscule, but once in a great awhile a life form beat those odds.