Lanikai Beach
Lanikai Beach or Kaʻōhao Beach is located in Kaʻōhao, a community in the town of Kailua and on the windward coast of Oahu, 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Beach
- Description: beach located in Lanikai on the windward coast of Oahu, Hawaii
- Also known as: “Ka‘ohao Beach”
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 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. Ka‘elepulu Pond is situated 1½ miles southwest of Lanikai Beach.
Kailua High School
School
Kailua High School is a four-year public high school located in the Kailua CDP, City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States on the island of O‘ahu. Kailua High School is situated 2 miles west of Lanikai Beach.
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 3 miles 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 4 miles south of Lanikai Beach.
Lanikai Beach
- Categories: tourist attraction and landform
- Location: Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States, North America
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Latitude
21.39174° or 21° 23′ 30″ northLongitude
-157.71551° or 157° 42′ 56″ westElevation
16 feet (5 metres)Open location code
73H497RM+MQOpenStreetMap ID
way 203015602OpenStreetMap feature
natural=beach
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Spanish—“Lanikai Beach” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Sablera Lanikai”
- Cebuano: “Lanikai Beach”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شط لانيكاى”
- French: “Lanikai Beach”
- Japanese: “ラニカイビーチ”
- Newari: “लानिकाई समुद्री तट”
- Spanish: “Playa Lanikai”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lanikai Park and PillBox Trail.
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