• View of the Kalaupapa Peninsula

    Kalaupapa

    National Historical Park Hawai'i

The Walls of Kalaupapa

A circular rock wall wall on the peninsula.
A circular rock wall wall on the peninsula.
NPS photo.
 
Likely this is an old ahupua'a wall.

Likely this is an old ahupua'a wall.

NPS photo.

The Kalaupapa Peninsula is full of rock walls.

The original people built some of these walls, including a nearly complete ahupua`a boundary wall.

 
A prehistoric ahupua'a boundary wall.

A prehistoric ahupua'a boundary wall.

NPS photo.

Other walls were built by residents of the Kalawao and Kalaupapa isolation settlements.

 
A neighborhood wall in Kalaupapa.

A neighborhood wall in Kalaupapa.

NPS photo.

Walls defined spaces, marked boundaries, and kept animals in or kept animals out.

 
One of the entrance walls at Bayview.

One of the entrance walls at Bayview.

NPS photo.

A rock entrance pillar within the settlement.
 
Entrance gate at Bayview.

Entrance gate at Bayview.

NPS photo.

Enjoy the A rock entrance pillar within the settlement.

Did You Know?

Damien Sign

Father Damien's life and death among his people at Kalaupapa focussed the attention of the world on the problem of leprosy and the plight of its victims.  After Damien's death in 1889, the people of England established a fund and a commission for the scientific investigation of the disease.