Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea is a peak in Hawaii County, Hawaii and has an elevation of 13,606 feet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pu‘uwēkiu and W. M. Keck Observatory.
Pu‘uwēkiu
Volcano
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mauna Kea is a dormant shield volcano on the island of Hawaiʻi. Its peak is 4,207.3 m above sea level, making it the highest point in Hawaii and the island with the second highest high point, behind New Guinea.
W. M. Keck Observatory
Observatory
The W. M. Keck Observatory is an astronomical observatory with two telescopes at an elevation of 4,145 meters near the summit of Mauna Kea in the U.S. state of Hawaii.
NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
Observatory
Photo: Afshin Darian, CC BY 2.0.
The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility is a 3.2-meter telescope optimized for use in infrared astronomy and located at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii.
Mauna Kea
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 13,606 feet
- Also known as: “Kea”, “Mauna Kea Volcano”, “Mauna Keah”, “Mauna Queia *”, “Mouna Kea”, “Mouna Koa”, “Mowna Kaah”, “Mowna-Kaah”, “Mowna-Kaak”, “Puu Wekiu”, and “White Mountain”
- Category: landform
- Location: Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
19.82278° or 19° 49′ 22″ northLongitude
-155.46924° or 155° 28′ 9″ westElevation
13,606 feet (4,147 metres)Open location code
73F6RGFJ+48OpenStreetMap ID
node 3039468860OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
5850911
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Satellite Map
Discover Mauna Kea from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Mauna Kea” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ማውና ኬያ”
- Arabic: “مونا كيا”
- Armenian: “Մաունա-Կեա”
- Belarusian: “Гара Мауна-Кеа”
- Bulgarian: “Мауна Кеа”
- Burmese: “မိုနာကီယာတောင်”
- Catalan: “Mauna Kea”
- Chinese: “冒纳凯阿火山”
- Danish: “Mauna Kea”
- Dutch: “Mauna Kea”
- Esperanto: “Mauna Kea”
- Finnish: “Mauna Kea”
- French: “Mauna Kea”
- Galician: “Mauna Kea”
- Georgian: “მაუნა-კეა”
- German: “Mauna Kea”
- Greek: “Μάουνα Κέα”
- Hebrew: “מאונה קיאה”
- Italian: “Mauna Kea”
- Japanese: “マウナ・ケア山”
- Kazakh: “Мауна-Кеа”
- Korean: “마우나케아 산”
- Latvian: “Maunakea”
- Lithuanian: “Mauna Kėja”
- Malay: “Gunung Berapi Mauna Kea”
- Malayalam: “മൗനാ കീ”
- Persian: “مونا کیا”
- Polish: “Mauna Kea”
- Portuguese: “Mauna kea”
- Russian: “Мауна-Кеа”
- Slovak: “Mauna Kea”
- Spanish: “Mauna Kea”
- Swedish: “Mauna Kea”
- Thai: “ภูเขาไฟเมานาเคอา”
- Ukrainian: “Мауна-Кеа”
- Urdu: “ماونا کیا”
- Western Panjabi: “مونا کیا”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include UH 2.2m Telescope and University of Hawai’i 2.2-meter Telescope.
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