Kīlauea

Kīlauea is an active shield volcano in the . It is located along the southeastern shore of Hawaii Island. The volcano is between 210,000 and 280,000 years old and grew above sea level about 100,000 years ago.
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 1,247 metres
  • Description: active volcano in Hawaii
  • Also known as: “Kilauea (Havaj, Havajské ostrovy : sopka)” and “Vulcão Kilauea”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and Tree Molds.

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is a national park on the of the island state of . The national park is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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A lava tree mold, sometimes erroneously called a lava tree cast, is a hollow lava cylinder formed around a tree trunk. These hollow volcanic landforms are produced when lava flows through a forest, coating the trees' trunks.

Military installation
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Kīlauea Military Camp is operated as a Morale, Welfare and Recreation facility on Hawai‘i Island, also known as the Big Island, in Hawaiʻi. It is located inside .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Volcano Village and Mauna Loa Estates.

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Volcano, or , is a census-designated place in Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States located in the with a small portion of the CDP in the District of Kaʻū. As of the 2020 census, Volcano had a population of 736.

Suburb
is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Hawaii County, , United States. It is on the eastern side of Kilauea on the island of Hawaii and is bordered to the north, across Hawaii Route 11, by the community of .

Kīlauea

Latitude
19.41387° or 19° 24′ 50″ north
Longitude
-155.27581° or 155° 16′ 33″ west
Elevation
1,247 metres (4,091 feet)
Open location code
73F6CP7F+GM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2734299214
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
11611367
Wiki­data ID
Q188698
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kīlauea” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kīlauea”
  • Arabic: “كيلاويا”
  • Armenian: “Կիլաուեա”
  • Armenian: “Կիլաուելա”
  • Asturian: “Kilauea”
  • Basque: “Kilauea”
  • Basque: “Kīlauea”
  • Belarusian: “Кілаўэа”
  • Bosnian: “Kilauea”
  • Bosnian: “Kīlauea”
  • Bulgarian: “Килауеа”
  • Catalan: “Kilauea”
  • Catalan: “volcà Kilauea”
  • Cebuano: “Kīlauea Volcano”
  • Chinese: “基拉韋亞火山”
  • Chinese: “基拉韋厄峰”
  • Chinese: “基拉韋厄火山”
  • Chinese: “基拉韦厄峰”
  • Czech: “Kilauea”
  • Danish: “Kilauea”
  • Dutch: “Kīlauea”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀི་ལའུ་ཨེ།”
  • Estonian: “Kilauea vulkaan”
  • Estonian: “Kīlauea vulkaan”
  • Finnish: “Kīlauea”
  • French: “Cratera Ellis”
  • French: “Kīlauea”
  • French: “Kirauea”
  • French: “Lahainaluna”
  • French: “Lua Pele o Kilauea”
  • French: “Uwekahuna”
  • French: “Uwēkahuna”
  • Galician: “Kilauea”
  • Georgian: “კილაუეა”
  • German: “Kilauea (Havaj, Havajské ostrovy : sopka)”
  • German: “Kīlauea”
  • Greek: “Ηφαίστειο Κιλαουέα”
  • Greek: “Κιλαουέα”
  • Hawaiian: “Kīlauea”
  • Hebrew: “קילוואה”
  • Hungarian: “Kilauea”
  • Icelandic: “Kīlauea”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Kīlauea”
  • Indonesian: “Kīlauea”
  • Italian: “Kīlauea”
  • Japanese: “キラウエア”
  • Japanese: “キラウエア山”
  • Japanese: “キラウェア火山”
  • Japanese: “キラウエア火山”
  • Javanese: “Kilauea”
  • Kazakh: “Килауэа”
  • Korean: “킬라우에아산”
  • Latvian: “Kīlauea”
  • Lithuanian: “Kilauea”
  • Macedonian: “Килауеа”
  • Macedonian: “Килауеја”
  • Malay: “Gunung Berapi Kilauea”
  • Malay: “Kīlauea”
  • Maori: “Kirauea”
  • Marathi: “किलौआ”
  • Mingrelian: “კილაუეა”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kīlauea”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kīlauea”
  • Norwegian: “Kīlauea”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kilauea”
  • Persian: “کیلاویا”
  • Polish: “Kilauea Crater”
  • Polish: “Kīlauea Crater”
  • Polish: “Kīlauea”
  • Portuguese: “Kilauea”
  • Portuguese: “Kīlauea”
  • Portuguese: “Vulcão Kilauea”
  • Romanian: “Kīlauea”
  • Russian: “Килауэа”
  • Serbian: “Kilauea”
  • Serbian: “Килауеа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kilauea”
  • Slovak: “Kilauea”
  • Slovenian: “Kīlauea”
  • Slovenian: “Lahainaluna”
  • Spanish: “Kīlauea”
  • Spanish: “Vulcão Kilawea”
  • Swedish: “Kilauea”
  • Swedish: “Mauna Ulu”
  • Tagalog: “Kīlauea”
  • Tamil: “கிலாயூயா எரிமலை”
  • Thai: “ภูเขาไฟคีเลาเวอา”
  • Turkish: “Kilauea Dağı”
  • Ukrainian: “Кілауеа”
  • Uzbek: “Kilauea vulqoni”
  • Vietnamese: “Kīlauea”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kīlauea”
  • Wu Chinese: “基拉韦厄火山”
  • Yue Chinese: “基拉韋亞火山”
  • “Kilauea”
  • “Kīlauea”

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Localities in the Area

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