Chiefs Associated with KāNeʻohe
ʻAhua a laka
ʻAhua a laka is on the southwestern side of the barrier reef enclosing the lagoon of Kāneʻohe bay. Itʻs name means sand bank of Laka, a chief that was born in Kipahulu, Maui, whose bones were being transported by his son Luanuʻu. It is said that this sand bar was a resting point for the son and Laka and this is where Laka passed away. Kualoa, Kaʻalaea Kāneʻohe Bay is associated with a voyaging family of chiefs, which included Moʻikeha and his family. These chiefs appear in the genealogy of Nanaʻulu, which traces their lineage back to Papa and Wākea. Mokapu The voyaging chief, Paumakua, who is ten generations down after Heme in the ʻUlu genealogy, was born on Mokapu, which is at the southern end of Kaneʻohe bay. It is also known that Auanini, the grandfather of Paumakua, was the first haole to arrive off of Mokapu in a ship named Ulupana. HōkūleʻaMarch 8, 1975, below Kanehoalani (Heavenly companion) and the cliffs of Mo'o kapu o Haloa, in Hakipu'u near the border of Kāneʻohe bay, the replica of the 62 foot double hulled voyaging canoe slid into the sea. This canoe was named "Hōkūleʻa" or the "Star of Gladness" named after the brightest star in the northern sky. Hōkūleʻa had been built by the Polynesian Voyaging Society to sail the ancient migration route between Hawaiʻi and Tahiti.
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