The eight main islands of Hawaii are also called the Hawaiian Windward Islands. All except Kahoolawe are inhabited. Kahoʻolawe anglicized as Kahoolawe is the smallest of the 8 predominant volcanic islands withinside the Hawaiian Islands. The maximum factor on Kahoʻolawe is the crater of Lua Makika on the summit of Puʻu Moaulanui, which is ready 1,477 feet (450 m) above sea level.

Kahoʻolawe is tremendously dry (common annual rainfall is much less than sixty-five cm or 26 in) due to the fact the island's low elevation fails to generate a good deal of orographic precipitation from the northeastern alternate winds, and Kahoʻolawe is placed within site of the rain shadow of jap Maui's 10,023-foot-high (3, half m) volcano, Haleakalā. More than one area of Kahoʻolawe has been eroded right all the way down to saprolite hardpan soil, in large part on uncovered surfaces close to the summit.

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