Puu Kakea

Puu Kakea is a peak in , and has an elevation of 450 metres. Puu Kakea is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near the suburb .
  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 450 metres
  • Description: mountain in Hawaii, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Pu‘u Kakea” and “Puʻukākea”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Tantalus and University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy.

Peak
Photo: Straitgate, Public domain.
is an extinct cinder cone in the southern Koʻolau Range on the of Oʻahu. It also has a summit crater, Tantalus Crater. The cinder cone formed after the demise of Koʻolau Volcano, during a time of rejuvenated-stage volcanism in southeastern Oʻahu that also formed , and as part of the Honolulu Volcanics.

University
The is a research institute for astronomy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, a public research university in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The at 3300 Tantalus Drive in Honolulu, Hawaii, was designed by Vladimir Ossipoff for Dr. Howard and Betty Liljestrand, who had bought the hillside site overlooking downtown Oahu in 1948.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Manoa and Makiki Heights.

Suburb
Photo: Sdkb, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mānoa or Mānoa Valley is a valley and residential neighborhood of , Hawaii. The neighborhood is about 3 miles east and inland from and less than 1 mile from Ala Moana and .

Suburb
Photo: public domain, Public domain.
Makiki is an area of , , northeast of , stretching east to west from Punahou Street to Pensacola Street and north to south from Round Top Drive/Makiki Heights Drive to Lunalilo Freeway. , an extinct tuff cone, and overlook the Makiki.

Neighborhood
Mōʻiliʻili, Hawaii is a neighborhood of Honolulu CDP, City and County of Honolulu, , on the island of Oahu. Its name means "pebble lizard" in Hawaiian.

Puu Kakea

Latitude
21.32095° or 21° 19′ 15″ north
Longitude
-157.8175° or 157° 49′ 3″ west
Elevation
450 metres (1,476 feet)
Open location code
73H485CM+92
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7727325149
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
5847609
Wiki­data ID
Q49064699
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Satellite Map

Discover Puu Kakea from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Dutch—“Puu Kakea” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Puu Kakea”
  • Dutch: “Puu Kakea”

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