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Kealakekua Bay

American  
[kay-ah-luh-kuh-koo-uh bay, kay-ah-luh-] / keɪˈɑ lə kəˈku ə ˈbeɪ, keɪˌɑ lə- /

noun

  1. a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the Kona coast of the Island of Hawaii: Captain James Cook was killed on a beach here in 1779.


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After an hour of motoring across ultra-calm waters in shades of blue, green and turquoise, we neared Kealakekua Bay State Historical Park.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2022

In the 1970s, Michael and Janet Dant began offering snorkeling tours in the Big Island’s Kealakekua Bay.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2022

At the easternmost island, Hawaii proper, Governor Judd will come upon Kealakekua Bay, where in 1779 Captain Cook, for his overbearing treatment of the natives, was stabbed to death and thrown into the water.

From Time Magazine Archive

James Cook, British seadog, who had sailed the Pacific from the Antarctic and the South Sea Islands to Alaska, anchored his good ship Resolution in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii.

From Time Magazine Archive

AT half-past six in the morning, we landed in Kau,—that is grandpa and I did; grandma went on in the steamer to Kealakekua Bay.

From Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California by Mary E. (Mary Evarts) Anderson

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