Kaulana
Kaulana is a cape in Hawaii County, Hawaii. Kaulana is situated nearby to the hamlet Kaʻilikiʻi.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Papakōlea Beach.
Papakōlea Beach
Beach
Photo: Aren Elliott, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Papakōlea Beach is a green sand beach located near South Point, in the Kaʻū district of the island of Hawaiʻi. It is one of only two green sand beaches in the world, the other being Punta Cormorant on Floreana Island in the Galapagos Islands It gets its distinctive coloring from olivine sand eroded out of the enclosing volcanic cone.
Kaulana
- Type: Cape
- Also known as: “Kaulani”
- Category: landform
- Location: Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States, North America
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Latitude
18.91633° or 18° 54′ 59″ northLongitude
-155.66808° or 155° 40′ 5″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
73C6W88J+GQOpenStreetMap ID
node 7727247607OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
5848595
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Kaʻilikiʻi and Kamā‘oa Homesteads.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include South Point Complex and Lua‘opalahemo.
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