About Keanapoi
Keanapoi is also known as Kaʻanapoe and Keanapoe.
These names could be variants of the original Hawaiian name or misheard versions. As a named place, it is clear Keanapoi was considered significant, but few moʻolelo have been publically shared.
Keanapoi is mapped as a mauna in Mānoa; however, not much is known about the meaning or reasoning behind the name. Other records suggest that the puʻu was referred to as either Keanapoe, or likely, Kaʻanapoe (lit. rolling cliffs).
Some reasons behind this variance might arise from transmission errors, where foreigners misheard place names while attempting to produce maps or record knowledge.
How to observe the site
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Sources for the information
- Pukui, Mary Kawena, and Samuel Hoyt Elbert. “wahi pana.” In Hawaiian-English Dictionary, 1986. https://hilo.hawaii.edu/wehe/?q=wahi+pana.
- Pukui, Mary Kawena, and Samuel Hoyt Elbert. “wahi.” In Hawaiian-English Dictionary, 1986. https://hilo.hawaii.edu/wehe/?q=wahi.
- Pukui, Mary Kawena, and Samuel Hoyt Elbert. “pana.” In Hawaiian-English Dictionary, 1986. https://hilo.hawaii.edu/wehe/?q=pana.
- Silva, Noenoe K. The Power of the Steel-Tipped Pen: Reconstructing Native Hawaiian Intellectual History. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.