Meaning of Kauaʻi | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

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“One of the most remarkable structures attributed to the menehune is the Menehune Ditch (sometimes called Ola’s Water Lead) on the island of Kauaʻi, a ditch that brings water from Waimea River to the taro patches on the other side of the mountain, some six miles away.”

“Samuel Kamakau, a bit younger than [David] Malo (he was born in 1815), was also a Lahainaluna student and his family traced its descent from the priestly class of Oʻahu and Kauaʻi.”

“There is a large difference in timescale between the modern precipitation rates in Figure 10.5 and the paleoprecipitation rates that helped shape Kauaʻi’s topography over the past 5 Myr, as there is in any study that links long-term landscape evolution to modern climate measurements.”

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