Talk:Hualālai

Pronunciation?
Is it really ? From the kahakō that might be the official original Hawaiian way, but we live nearby and it seems usually pronounced more like: or. Although the differrence in the ending is subtle (rhymes with the English word "eye"), the stress is usually put on the first "a". My guess this is just an Anglicization, since I thought Hawaiian dipthongs stressed the first vowel and tended to reduce or eliminate the second one in rapid speach. I hate to "correct" the locals, however, without good authority. Mahalo, if someone knows more. W Nowicki (talk)

Picture caption?
One of them says "from Kukii Beach" and I think you mean Kukio instead. The onl Kukii I can find is on the otherr side of the island. The view looks like it is from the northwest, which would be Kukio. The page on the USGS site does not say, so I wonder if we should just say "from the northwest"? or "looking southeast"? W Nowicki (talk) 18:55, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

On a different but related note, there's a picture of a descent into a lava conduit. It's hard to understand--I think the camera is looking up towards somebody coming down. Also, if this is a conduit *up* through which lava came, that is pretty unusual--most lava caves are more or less horizontal tubes through which lava flowed on its way down a volcano. It would be nice to have something in the text expanding on this. Mcswell (talk) 03:40, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Picture arrangement
Let's discuss: I re-arranged the photos to remove the large whitespace left above the table. The one photo that I removed is available at Commons, at the new gallery.

Why revert? —hike395 (talk) 02:40, 9 January 2010 (UTC)


 * It may have looked different on my set up. Any case, the photo I took and uploaded added perspective and improved the article as readers would now be able to compare Mauna Loa, Kea and Hualālai visually all in one shot. I think it does more for the article than the one you kept, which is very similar to the main photo in the infobox. I'd rather have this aerial in the article, not just because it's a personal contribution, but I feel it improves the article. I uploaded a new version to commons. Perhaps it would look good at the bottom of the =Structure= section... --Travis Thurston+ 05:13, 10 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Sadly, in Image:MaunaKea_MaunaLoa_Hualalai_Letterbox.jpg, Hualalai is just a tiny bump: it doesn't illustrate the subject of the article well. (see WP:Images for discussion along these lines). I don't think it belongs in the article. I'm curious what other editors think. —hike395 (talk) 12:28, 10 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, its an interesting perspective, but I think Hualalai is not prominent enough for it to be worth including here. If we want to portray Hualalai in relation to the other volcanoes on the island, here are a couple of early DEM displays I think do a better job: and, although it isn't very prominent in these either. -- Avenue (talk) 13:04, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Or is it Mauna Kea?
Several anonymous editors have claimed the File:Hualalai from north.jpg picture is really mauna kea. I am not sure, since I cannot make out the observatories of Mauna Kea (although maybe you cannot see them from the north?). At any rate the usual view of Hualalai is from the coast shrouded in clouds. I have some of those I could upload, but they are not as dramatic. W Nowicki (talk) 20:53, 25 January 2010 (UTC) .... Looks like the pictures used now are clearly the right mountain. W Nowicki (talk) 22:58, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Diacritics
Actually the official GNIS name of the state Hawaii has no diacritic, but the island of Hawaii does. As of now the article is not consistent, often omitting it when the island is intended. I will work on it. W Nowicki (talk) 22:58, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

1859 eruption
The text attributes the 1859 eruption to Pu'u Wa'awa'a, "an offshoot of Hualalai." My copy of ref. 5, _Volcanoes in the Sea_ (although I have the second edition from the mid 1980s), is in another state, but I'm certain it attributes the 1859 eruption to a vent low down the northwest flank of Mauna Loa, not Hualalai. As I recall, it stated that this eruption's parentage was disputed in the past but that no one really doubts any longer that it was lava of Mauna Loa. Is there a more recent reference that claims the 1859 eruption for Hualalai again? Def-Mornahan (talk) 19:36, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Most recent eruption
There's definitely some confusion. HVO seems to say the most recent eruption was in 1801, neither a hundred thousand years ago, nor 1859. Here's their page:. Hope this helps. Awien (talk) 19:58, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Added that info to the article. Awien (talk) 21:23, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Puʻu Waʻawaʻa Trachyte Composition
The article states that the trachyte in Puʻu Waʻawaʻa has "high (over 62%) silicon composition." This is certainly wrong. The trachyte is probably 62% silica. Silicon is element #14. Silica is silica dioxide, a chemical compound with chemical formula SiO2 -- a crucial difference. It's conventional to talk about the composition of igneous rocks on the basis of their various oxide components expressed as weight-percents. (The problem is compounded by linking to the article on silicon, the element, so that people can learn more about what the rocks aren't made of.) The article also states that "typical basalt is only 50% silicon," which is wrong for the same reason. 24.21.147.87 (talk) 08:15, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Contradiction: Active or dormant?
The lead says this volcano is dormant. However, it's in Category:Active volcanoes. Is it active or is it dormant? --Auntof6 (talk) 03:30, 20 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Hawaiian Volcano Observatory classifies it as active, and expects further eruptions within the next hundred years: Awien (talk) 12:43, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

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