USS Bowfin
USS Bowfin, is a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy named for the bowfin fish. Since 1981, she has been open to public tours at the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, next to the USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Site of the beginning of Pacific War and USS Arizona.
Site of the beginning of Pacific War
Battlefield
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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. Site of the beginning of Pacific War is situated 1 mile southwest of USS Bowfin.
USS Arizona
Protected area
Photo: Robert Enrique Muller, Public domain.
USS Arizona was a standard-type battleship built for the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state, she was the second and last ship in the Pennsylvania class. USS Arizona is situated 3,900 feet west of USS Bowfin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aiea and Salt Lake.
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.
Salt Lake
Suburb
Salt Lake is a neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii on the island of O‘ahu. The area is also known as Āliamanu after a nearby crater, although Salt Lake itself is in a crater called Ālia pa‘akai — meaning "salt pond" in the Hawaiian language. Salt Lake is situated 2 miles southeast of USS Bowfin.
Western Honolulu
Photo: Cristo Vlahos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Western Honolulu is an area of Honolulu, made up of the neighborhoods between Downtown Honolulu and Pearl Harbor. The neighborhoods of Kalihi, Moanalua, Salt Lake, as well as the Honolulu International Airport and Pearl Harbor are covered in this article.
USS Bowfin
- Type: Museum
- Description: 1942 Balao-class submarine
- Categories: military museum, attack submarine, museum ship, preserved watercraft, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“USS Bowfin” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “USS Bowfin”
- Chinese: “弓鰭魚號潛艇”
- Chinese: “弓鳍鱼号潜艇”
- French: “SS-287”
- French: “USS Bowfin”
- German: “Bowfin”
- German: “USS Bowfin”
- Indonesian: “USS Bowfin”
- Irish: “USS Bowfin”
- Japanese: “ボーフィン”
- Persian: “یواساس کمانباله (اساس-۲۸۷)”
- Persian: “یواساس کمانباله”
- Polish: “USS Bowfin”
- Slovenian: “USS Bowfin”
- Ukrainian: “USS Bowfin (SS-287)”
- Ukrainian: “USS Bowfin”
- Vietnamese: “USS Bowfin (SS-287)”
- Vietnamese: “USS Bowfin”
- “USS Bowfin”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Kūāhua and Lower Aiea.
Nearby Places
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