Kohala

Kohala is the oldest of five volcanoes that make up the island of Hawaii. Kohala is an estimated one million years old—so old that it experienced, and recorded, the reversal of Earth's magnetic field 780,000 years ago.
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 1,637 metres
  • Description: mountain in Hawaii
  • Also known as: “Kohala Mountain Range”, “Kohala Mountains”, and “コハラ山脈”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Waimea.

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Kohala

Latitude
20.07499° or 20° 4′ 30″ north
Longitude
-155.71869° or 155° 43′ 7″ west
Elevation
1,637 metres (5,371 feet)
Open location code
73G637FJ+XG
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Kohala” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Kohala”
  • Catalan: “Kohala”
  • Cebuano: “Kohala”
  • Chinese: “科哈拉火山”
  • Dutch: “Kohala”
  • Estonian: “Kohala vulkaan”
  • French: “Kohala”
  • German: “Kohala”
  • Hebrew: “קוהאלה”
  • Japanese: “コハラ”
  • Japanese: “コハラ山地”
  • Polish: “Kohala”
  • Portuguese: “Kohala”
  • Russian: “Кохала”
  • Spanish: “Kohala”
  • Ukrainian: “Когала”
  • Yue Chinese: “科哈拉火山”

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