[Rockhounds] Hawaiian Chants Suggest Lava Flow Name Change

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

A lava flow that erupted from what is now Kīlauea Iki in the early 1400s –
named ʻAilāʻau by a researcher in the 1970s – may have already been named
Kualoloa, according to older Native Hawaiian chants.

The name change is the subject of this week’s U.S. Geological Survey
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Volcano Watch article, written by HVO
volunteer and naturalist Bobby Camara, with Pualani Kanakaʻole Kanahele and
Donald Swanson.

>From this week’s article:

Native Hawaiian oral traditions record a rich history of the changing
volcanic landscape in Hawaiʻi. Interweaving cultural knowledge with
scientific disciplines can provide a more complete understanding of past
events, including the largest known lava flow eruption of Kīlauea.

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