Mokapu
Americannoun
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Girding the bay to the left, a humpbacked volcanic crater, the Mokapu Peninsula, looking like the snake that swallowed an elephant in “The Little Prince.”
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2011
When Aiai left Wailau he showed this lad the ku-ula and the fish station in the sea he had located there, at the same distance as that rocky island known as Mokapu.
From Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends by Thrum, Thomas G. (Thomas George)
In the early morning they left this place and went first to Mokapu and stayed there ten days, for they were delayed by a storm and could not go to Molokai.
From The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by Beckwith, Martha Warren
He is directed to a grove of kukui trees between Mokapu Point and Bird Island, on Oahu, where lives Kukui and his thieving son Iwa.
From The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by Beckwith, Martha Warren
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