Kīlauea
Kīlauea is an active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, 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.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 1,247 metres
- Description: active volcano in Hawaii
- Also known as: “Cratera Ellis”, “Kilauea (Havaj, Havajské ostrovy : sopka)”, “Kilauea Crater”, “Kīlauea Crater”, “Kilauea vulkaan”, “Lahainaluna”, “Lua Pele o Kilauea”, “Mauna Ulu”, “Uwekahuna”, “Uwēkahuna”, “volcà Kilauea”, “Vulcão Kilauea”, “Vulcão Kilawea”, “Ηφαίστειο Κιλαουέα”, “キラウエア山”, and “キラウェア火山”
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and Tree Molds.
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Tree Molds
Photo: Wikimedia, No restrictions.Kilauea Military Camp
Military installation
Photo: JGKlein, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Volcano Village and Mauna Loa Estates.
Kīlauea
- Categories: shield volcano, active volcano, and landform
- Location: Hawaii County, Hawaii, Polynesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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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”
- Cebuano: “Kīlauea Volcano”
- 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: “Kīlauea vulkaan”
- Finnish: “Kīlauea”
- French: “Kīlauea”
- Galician: “Kilauea”
- Georgian: “კილაუეა”
- German: “Kīlauea”
- Greek: “Κιλαουέα”
- Hawaiian: “Kīlauea”
- Hebrew: “קילוואה”
- Hungarian: “Kilauea”
- Icelandic: “Kīlauea”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Kīlauea”
- Indonesian: “Kīlauea”
- Italian: “Kīlauea”
- Japanese: “キラウエア”
- Japanese: “キラウエア火山”
- Javanese: “Kilauea”
- Kazakh: “Килауэа”
- Korean: “킬라우에아산”
- Latvian: “Kīlauea”
- Lithuanian: “Kilauea”
- 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: “Kīlauea”
- Portuguese: “Kilauea”
- Portuguese: “Kīlauea”
- Romanian: “Kīlauea”
- Russian: “Килауэа”
- Serbian: “Kilauea”
- Serbian: “Килауеа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kilauea”
- Slovak: “Kilauea”
- Slovenian: “Kīlauea”
- Spanish: “Kīlauea”
- Swedish: “Kilauea”
- 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”
- “Kīlauea”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Ka‘ū Desert and Royal Hawaiian Estates.
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