Lanikai Beach
Lanikai Beach or Kaʻōhao Beach is located in Kaʻōhao, a community in the town of Kailua and on the windward coast of Oʻahu, Hawaii. Although there is a widespread belief that the name Lanikai means "heavenly sea", that is a misconception and a grammatical error, since in the Hawaiian language, the qualifier comes after the noun.Places of Interest
Highlights include Mokulua Islands and Ka‘elepulu Pond.
Mokulua Islands
Islet
Photo: Marshman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nā Mokulua, or just Mokulua, nicknamed the Mokes, are two islets off the windward coast of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands. The islets are often photographed and are located about 0.75 miles off Kaʻōhao, a neighborhood of Kailua, Hawai‘i.
Ka‘elepulu Pond
Pond
Kaʻelepulu Pond, also known as Enchanted Lake, is an estuary in Kailua, Hawaii. The Hawaiian name Kaʻelepulu literally means "moist blackness". Historically a 200-to-400-acre Hawaiian fish pond, and later a fishery made up of 190 acres of water and 90 acres of marsh, Kaʻelepulu was partially filled in and built on beginning in 1959.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kailua and Waimanalo.
Kailua
Photo: EthanOfChapman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kailua is a census-designated place in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States. It lies in the Koʻolaupoko District of the island of Oʻahu on the windward coast at Kailua Bay.
Waimanalo
Town
Photo: Tijuana Brass, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Waimānalo is a census-designated place in the District of Koʻolaupoko, in the City & County of Honolulu, on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaii, United States. Waimanalo is situated 5 km south of Lanikai Beach.
Waimānalo Beach
Village
Photo: Pixel23, CC BY-SA 1.0.
Waimānalo Beach is a census-designated place located in the City & County of Honolulu, in the District of Koʻolaupoko, on the island of Oʻahu in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi. Waimānalo Beach is situated 6 km south of Lanikai Beach.
Lanikai Beach
- Type: Suburb with 1,840 residents
- Also known as: “Lanikai”
- Category: locality
- Location: Honolulu County, Hawaii, Polynesia, Oceania
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Latitude
21.39051° or 21° 23′ 26″ northLongitude
-157.71558° or 157° 42′ 56″ westPopulation
1,840Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)Open location code
73H497RM+6QOpenStreetMap ID
node 150916973OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
5850079
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“Lanikai Beach” goes by many names.
- French: “Lanikai Beach”
- Spanish: “Playa Lanikai”
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