Bellows Air Force Station
Bellows Air Force Station is a United States military reservation located in Waimanalo, Hawaii. Once an important air field during World War II, the reservation now serves as a military training area and recreation area for active and retired military and civilian employees of the Department of Defense.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Abandoned airfield
- Description: U.S. military reservation in Waimanalo, Hawaii
- Also known as: “Bellows Field”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Lanikai Beach and Mokulua Islands.
Lanikai Beach
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. Lanikai Beach is situated 2½ miles north of Bellows Air Force Station.
Mokulua Islands
Islet
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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. Mokulua Islands is situated 2½ miles northeast of Bellows Air Force Station.
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 2 miles northwest of Bellows Air Force Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Waimanalo and Waimānalo Beach.
Waimanalo
Town
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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.
Waimānalo Beach
Village
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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 1½ miles southeast of Bellows Air Force Station.
Kailua
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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.
Bellows Air Force Station
- Categories: air base, seaside resort, and transportation
- Location: Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Japanese—“Bellows Air Force Station” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Bellows Air Force Station”
- Czech: “Bellows Field”
- Dutch: “Bellows Air Force Station”
- French: “Bellows Air Force Station”
- Italian: “Bellows Air Force Station”
- Japanese: “ベローズ空軍基地”
- Japanese: “ベローズ空軍施設”
- Japanese: “ベローズ空軍駐屯地”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Waimānalo Village and Keolu Hills.
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