Pu‘uwēkiu

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 .
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 13,776 feet
  • Description: Hawaiian volcano
  • Also known as: “Kukahaula”, “Mauna Kea”, “Mount Mauna Kea”, “Pu’u Wekiu”, “Pu’uwekiu”, “Puu Wekiu”, and “Puuwekiu”

Places of Interest

Highlights include W. M. Keck Observatory and Caltech Submillimeter Observatory.

Observatory
The 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.

Observatory
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The was a 10.4-meter diameter submillimeter wavelength telescope situated alongside the 15-meter James Clerk Maxwell Telescope at .

Observatory
Photo: Afshin Darian, CC BY 2.0.
The is a 3.2-meter telescope optimized for use in infrared astronomy and located at the Mauna Kea Observatory in .

Pu‘uwēkiu

Latitude
19.82067° or 19° 49′ 14″ north
Longitude
-155.46807° or 155° 28′ 5″ west
Elevation
13,776 feet (4,199 metres)
Open location code
73F6RGCJ+7Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2189450439
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
5853476
Wiki­data ID
Q131230
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Satellite Map

Discover Pu‘uwēkiu from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Pu‘uwēkiu” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mauna Kea”
  • Albanian: “Mauna Kea”
  • Amharic: “ማውና ኬያ”
  • Amharic: “ሞና ኪ”
  • Arabic: “مونا كيا”
  • Aragonese: “Mauna Kea”
  • Armenian: “Մաունա Կեա”
  • Armenian: “Մաունա-Կեա”
  • Asturian: “Mauna Kea”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mauna Kea”
  • Balinese: “Mauna Kéa”
  • Basque: “Mauna Kea”
  • Belarusian: “Мауна-Кеа”
  • Bengali: “মাউনা কেয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Mauna Kea”
  • Breton: “Mauna Kea”
  • Bulgarian: “Мауна Кеа”
  • Burmese: “မိုနာကီယာတောင်”
  • Catalan: “Manu Kea”
  • Catalan: “Mauna Kea”
  • Cebuano: “Mauna Kea (bukid sa Estados Unidos, Hawaii County)”
  • Cebuano: “Mauna Kea”
  • Central Bikol: “Mauna Kea”
  • Central Kurdish: “چیای ماونا کیا”
  • Chinese: “冒納凱亞火山”
  • Chinese: “冒纳凯阿火山”
  • Chinese: “毛納基山”
  • Chinese: “毛納基火山”
  • Chinese: “茂納凱亞峰”
  • Chinese: “茂纳凯亚火山”
  • Croatian: “Mauna Kea”
  • Czech: “Mauna Kea”
  • Danish: “Mauna Kea”
  • Dutch: “Mauna Kea”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونا كيا”
  • Esperanto: “Mauna Kea”
  • Estonian: “Mauna Kea”
  • Finnish: “Mauna Kea”
  • French: “Mauna Kea”
  • Galician: “Mauna Kea”
  • Georgian: “მაუნა-კეა”
  • German: “Mauna Kea”
  • Greek: “Μάουνα Κέα”
  • Hawaiian: “Mauna Kea”
  • Hawaiian: “Mauna Keaa”
  • Hawaiian: “Pu‘uwēkiu”
  • Hebrew: “מאונה קיאה”
  • Hungarian: “Mauna Kea”
  • Icelandic: “Mauna Kea”
  • Indonesian: “Mauna Kea”
  • Italian: “Mauna Kea”
  • Japanese: “マウナ・ケア”
  • Japanese: “マウナ・ケア山”
  • Japanese: “マウナケア”
  • Japanese: “マウナケア山”
  • Javanese: “Mauna Kea”
  • Kazakh: “Mawna-Kea”
  • Kazakh: “Мауна-Кеа”
  • Kazakh: “ماۋنا-كەا”
  • Korean: “마우나 케아”
  • Korean: “마우나케아”
  • Korean: “마우나케아산”
  • Kurdish: “Mauna Kea”
  • Ladin: “Mauna Kea”
  • Latin: “Mauna Kea”
  • Latvian: “Mauna Kea”
  • Latvian: “Maunakea”
  • Limburgan: “Mauna Kea”
  • Lithuanian: “Mauna Kea”
  • Lithuanian: “Mauna Kėja”
  • Macedonian: “Мауна Кеа”
  • Macedonian: “Мауна Кеја”
  • Malay: “Gunung Berapi Mauna Kea”
  • Malay: “Mauna Kea”
  • Malayalam: “മൗനാ കീ”
  • Maori: “Mauna Kea”
  • Marathi: “मौना किया”
  • Nepali: “मौना केया”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mauna Kea”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mauna Kea”
  • Norwegian: “Mauna Kea”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mauna Kea”
  • Ossetian: “Маунæ-Кеæ”
  • Papiamento: “Mauna Kea”
  • Persian: “مائونا کیا”
  • Persian: “مونا کیا”
  • Polish: “Mauna Kea”
  • Portuguese: “Mauna Kea”
  • Romanian: “Mauna Kea”
  • Romansh: “Mauna Kea”
  • Russian: “Мауна-Кеа”
  • Scots: “Mauna Kea”
  • Serbian: “Mauna Kea”
  • Serbian: “Мауна Kea”
  • Serbian: “Мауна Кеа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mauna Kea”
  • Sicilian: “Manua Kea”
  • Sicilian: “Mauna Kea”
  • Slovak: “Mauna Kea”
  • Slovenian: “Mauna Kea”
  • Spanish: “Mauna Kea”
  • Spanish: “Telescopio Mauna Kea”
  • Swahili: “Mauna Kea”
  • Swedish: “Mauna Kea”
  • Telugu: “మౌనా కియా”
  • Thai: “Mauna Kea”
  • Thai: “ภูเขาไฟเมานาคี”
  • Thai: “ภูเขาไฟเมานาเคอา”
  • Thai: “ยอดเขาเมานาคี”
  • Turkish: “Mauna Kea Dağı”
  • Turkish: “Mauna Kea”
  • Turkish: “Maunakea”
  • Ukrainian: “Мауна Кеа”
  • Ukrainian: “Мауна-Кеа”
  • Urdu: “ماونا کیا”
  • Vietnamese: “Mauna Kea”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mauna Kea”
  • Welsh: “Mauna Kea”
  • Western Panjabi: “مونا کیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “茂纳凯亚火山”
  • Yue Chinese: “毛納基火山”
  • “Mauna Kea”
  • “Maunakea”
  • “nena Mana Ke”
  • “nena Mana Keja”
  • “nena Manake”
  • “nena Manakeja”
  • “nena Mauna Kea”
  • “nena Maunakea”

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