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Hawaii's 4 (or 5) Counties?
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| Contributor | User 215 |
| Last Edited | User 215 Sep 27, 2004 12:01am |
| Category | Analysis |
| News Date | Sep 27, 2004 12:00am |
| Description | Counties are another collectable that certain hams covet. There is a regular net in the evening out of Australia that is just for county hunters and a major network of county hunters in the USA. A primary net frequency for county hunters is 14.336 USB in the mainland US, and there is also county hunting on CW.
They are usually not too excited about Honolulu County, but the other three counties are considerably harder to get. There are four official counties in Hawaii: Honolulu, Kauai, Maui and Hawaii.
It is sometimes said that each of the five major islands of Hawaii are counties. This is not true. Kauai is Kauai county. The Big Island [Hawaii] is Hawaii county. Oahu is Honolulu County. But both Molokai and Maui are Maui county.
French Frigate Shoals through Kure Island [KH7K], but minus Midway Island [KH4], are part of the County of Honolulu. Talk about a BIG county! Hawaii County and the Island of Hawaii is such a large island it has been used as a "miniature continent" to test computerized weather modeling programs.
The inhabited islands relate to counties as follows:
Hawaii County comprises Hawaii.
Honolulu County, officially the City and County of Honolulu, comprises Oahu and the small islands northwest of Kauai and Niihau extending from Nihoa to Kure except for Midway. Prior to 1959 Palmyra, located about 1000 miles south of the Hawaiian chain, also was included.
Kauai County comprises Kauai and Niihau.
Maui County comprises Kahoolawe, Lanai, Maui, and Molokai, except that Kalawao County occupies a small portion of Molokai.
So Maui County reaches out and encompasses its neighbor island to the West, Molokai. It is on the very special island of Molokai, on a tiny peninsula of land, isolated on three sides by Pacific Ocean and on the South by an imposing cliff, virtually another island, that we search for county number five.
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