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Kīlauea volcano's summit eruption, within Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, began one year ago—on September 29, 2021. This three-minute video, produced by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, features footage from the past year and summarizes the eruption.
- Duration:
- 3 minutes, 3 seconds
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Kīlauea Volcano began erupting on December 20, 2020, at about 9:30 p.m. HST in Halema‘uma‘u crater. The last activity on the lava lake surface was observed on May 23, 2021.
- Duration:
- 4 minutes, 47 seconds
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In 2018, a new eruption of Kīlauea volcano changed the island of Hawai‘i forever. From May through August, large lava flows covered land southeast of the park destroying over 700 homes and devastating residential areas in the Puna District. At the same time, the summit area of the park was dramatically changed by tens of thousands of earthquakes, towering ash plumes, and a massive collapse of Kīlauea caldera.
- Duration:
- 7 minutes, 25 seconds
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This 24-minute U.S. Geological Survey video tells the story of the 2008-2018 Kīlauea summit eruption. It was released in 2017 when the eruption was still ongoing, just prior to its dramatic conclusion and the summit collapse of 2018. The video documentary is published as USGS General Interest Product 182.
- Duration:
- 24 minutes, 8 seconds
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Learn how lava tubes are created with Park Ranger Dave Barnes
- Duration:
- 2 minutes, 19 seconds
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Discover how Hawaiian volcanoes form with Park ranger Amy Skrabaez
- Duration:
- 3 minutes, 57 seconds
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Join Park Ranger Jay Robinson of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park and Geologist Don Swanson of the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory as they relive the 1969 - 1974 Maunaulu eruption
- Duration:
- 6 minutes, 31 seconds
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Mike Poland - Geophysicist, USGS - Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
- Duration:
- 5 minutes, 43 seconds
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Don Swanson - Geologist, USGS - Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
- Duration:
- 4 minutes, 5 seconds
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Matt Patrick - Geologist, USGS - Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
- Duration:
- 4 minutes, 12 seconds
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Also known as taro, the kalo plant is central to Native Hawaiian culture. Having sustained the Hawaiian people for centuries, it sits at the intersection of the Hawaiian diet and social and cultural life.
As a highly nutritious "super food", the tuber is the main ingredient in poi, a Hawaiian staple.
- Duration:
- 2 minutes, 51 seconds
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Hawaiian sweet potatoes come in an amazing number of varieties and have helped sustain the Hawaiian people
- Duration:
- 2 minutes, 48 seconds
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The official state tree of Hawaii has many cultural uses, including famously as fuel for torches.
- Duration:
- 2 minutes, 23 seconds
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Also known as lāʻī or kī, this Hawaiian plant is utilized for everything from clothing, to medicine, and to ward off evil spirits.
- Duration:
- 2 minutes, 37 seconds
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Explore the damaging role that invasive species play in the park with Ranger John Stallman
- Duration:
- 8 minutes, 3 seconds
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Discover the magnificent Hawaiian Silversword with Park Ranger Dean Gallagher
- Duration:
- 3 minutes, 8 seconds
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Please help protect the threatened nēnē. Watch for nēnē on roads. Cars are the leading cause of adult nēnē deaths in the park. DO NOT FEED the nēnē. Nēnē that are fed by visitors learn to beg for food and approach moving cars.
- Duration:
- 38 seconds
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The ʻUaʻu is the native Hawaiian seabird, known as the Hawaiian Petrel. Learn more about this endangered bird species with Wildlife Biologist Jill Lippert and Ecologist Darcy Hu
- Duration:
- 6 minutes, 2 seconds
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View this short archeology video by Pacific Clues on the 200 year old footprints in the Ka‘ū Desert.
- Duration:
- 9 minutes, 29 seconds
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Learn about the controlled burns at Kealakomo Waena with Archeologist Jade Moniz Nakamura and Botanist Sierra McDaniel
- Duration:
- 3 minutes, 30 seconds
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An in-depth look at the Pulu Station in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park's remote Kīlauea East Rift Zone.
Historic photo credits:
Whaling ships
Photo title: "Les fregates l'Astrolabe et la Boussole a Hawai en 1786"
Source: Gallica.fr
Photo title: "Judge Lord Kaina"
Source: 1974 Olson, Gunder, "The Story of the Volcano House." Petroglyph Press.
Photo title: "Hawaiian family in front of thatched grass house"
Source: Hawaii State Archives, Call number PPWD-6-3.010
Photo title: "Native Hawaiian grass huts in the woods"
Source: 1901 Report of the Governor of the Territory of Hawai'i
Photo title: "Keauhou landing sketch"
Source: de Varigny, Charles, 1981 "Fourteen Years in the Sandwich Islands, 1855-1868." The University Press of Hawai'i and the Hawaiian Historical Society, Honolulu.
Photo title: Historic image of Makaopuhi Crater
Source: Geoffery Mowrer collection
All other photos courtesy of NPS
- Duration:
- 6 minutes, 22 seconds
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