Ford Island
Ford Island is an islet in the center of Pearl Harbor, Oahu, in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It has been known as Rabbit Island, Marín's Island, and Little Goats Island; its native Hawaiian name is Mokuʻumeʻume.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: islet at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, USA
- Also known as: “Ford’s Island”, “Little Goats Island”, “Marin Island”, “Moku ‘Ume‘ume”, “Moku Umeume”, “Moku’ume’ume”, “Mokuumeume”, “Poka ‘Ailana”, “Poka’Ailana”, and “Rabbit Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Site of the beginning of Pacific War and USS Missouri.
Site of the beginning of Pacific War
Battlefield
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Pacific War was a theatre of World War II including East Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania, separate from World War II in Europe. Western accounts generally consider the war to have started with the Pearl Harbor attack of December 1941.
USS Missouri
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
USS Missouri is an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy in the 1940s and is now a museum ship. Completed in 1944, she is the last battleship commissioned by the United States.
USS Utah
Protected area
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
USS Utah was the second of two Florida class dreadnought battleships. The first ship of the United States Navy named after the state of Utah, she had one sister ship, Florida.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aiea and Waimalu.
Aiea
Photo: Avriette, CC BY-SA 3.0.
ʻAiea is a census-designated place located in the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the CDP had a total population of 9,338.
Waimalu
Suburb
Waimalu is a census-designated place in Honolulu County, Hawaiʻi, United States. The population was 13,817 at the 2020 census. Waimalu is situated 2½ miles north of Ford Island.
Iroquois Point
Suburb
Iroquois Point is a census-designated place in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States, on the island of Oahu near Pearl Harbor. The population was 4,549 at the 2020 census. Iroquois Point is situated 3 miles southwest of Ford Island.
Ford Island
- Categories: National Historic Site and landform
- Location: Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Ford Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة الأرنب”
- Arabic: “جزيرة الماعز الصغير”
- Arabic: “جزيرة فورد”
- Arabic: “جزيرة مارين”
- Catalan: “Ford Island”
- Cebuano: “Ford Island”
- Chinese: “福特島”
- Czech: “Ford Island”
- Czech: “Fordův ostrov”
- Dutch: “Ford Island”
- French: “Ford Island”
- French: “Ile de Ford”
- French: “île de Ford”
- French: “Île de Ford”
- German: “Ford Island”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Ford”
- Italian: “Ford Island”
- Italian: “isola Ford”
- Italian: “Isola Ford”
- Japanese: “フォード島”
- Korean: “포드섬”
- Persian: “جزیره فورد”
- Slovenian: “Ford Island”
- Spanish: “Isla Ford”
- Ukrainian: “Форд”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Ford”
- Western Frisian: “Ford (eilân)”
- Western Frisian: “Ford”
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