Hawaiian volcanoes (Hawaii Volcanoes) are located in the National Park. The active volcanoes of Kilauea and Mauna Loa. From 1983, a slow, but continuous eruption was slow, but a continuous eruption, this is one of the most active volcanoes on Earth. In the park you can see the result of the millennial volcanic activity, migration and evolution processes that have formed a land in the middle of the ocean with a unique ecosystem. Kilauela volcano has a crater equal to 4.5 km in diameter. Its maximum depth is about 230 m. Today on the edge of this crater organized real MuseumHis founder became Thomas Jegg Hegger - the first head of the Hawaiian volcanic observatory, and the exhibits are scientific equipment, clothing of volcanologists and other things associated with volcanoes.

The geological data of studies of the age of ancient surfaces on the southern and western slopes of Mauna Loa led to the assumption that these are two ancient shield volcanoes, Ninole (Ninole) and Kulani (Kulani), which were completely buried by younger Mauna Loa. Now geologists consider these exposures of the breeds part of Mauna Loa.

At the south-east of Hawaii island, the underwater flux of the Furniture is located. This is a submarine mountain, the vertex of which is located 980 meters under the water surface. The incessant business activity in 10,000-100,000 years can lead to the emergence of the ocean's surface of the new island or the Peninsula of Hawaii.

Volcanoes

• Kochala - Perezhnik
• Mauna Kea - Sleeping
• Huuallai - active, but not spewing since 1801
• Mauna Loa is active. Partially located in the National Park "Hawaiian Volcanoes"
• Kilauea is active (constantly erupting since 1983). Is a part national Park "Hawaiian volcanoes."

Thanks to the eruptions of the Kilauea volcano, Hawaii is still increasing. From January 1983 to September 2002, Lava streams increased the island by 220 hectares.

Useful tourist information

• Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park | Official website - NPS.GOV
• Visitor Information & Photos | volcanogallery.com.
• Hawai'i Volcanoes | Explore Guide (PDF)
• tourist information about the Hawaiian Islands - www.gohawaii.com

Address: Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park., Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hi 96718, United States
Coordinates: 19 ° 23'00.0 "N 155 ° 12'00.0" W

Two roads connect two main cities - Hilo on eastern coast and Caulua-Kona on west coast Islands.

• State highways 19 and 190, the northern way through Vaima.
• State Route 11, South Way through Hawaiian National Park volcanoes.

There are also state highways 270 (Cavaihaea - Havi) and 180 ("Coffee Road", see Engl Kona Coffee) from Honalo to the 190 road, Sadl Road (from Hilo in Vaima, passing by Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea), Saus Point Road (route 11 to the southern point of the USA), etc. Offices renting cars are available at international airports. There is also a taxi service. Free public transport Given the company "Hele-on bus"

The main commercial ports are located in Hilo in the East and Cavaihae in the west of the island. Cruise liners More often stop in Cailua-Kona.

Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii
Kilauea (translated from Hawaiian - "Expressing, strongly propagating") - an active shield volcano on the island of Hawaii.

Kilauea is continuously erupted from January 3, 1983. Puu-oo-kupaiatuha eruption lasts 23 years. In 1983, a series of short-lived fountains of Lava formed Puu-oo cone. In 1986, the eruption moved by 3 km down the eastern rift zone and formed a wide shield (Kupaianaha), which was formed for 5.5 years.

In September 2002, a large stream of basalt was erupted from the Kilauea volcano, which blocked the passage of the road, and reached the coast of the ocean.


The volcano entered in the intensive activity phase on March 6, 2011.
Lava streams break out of the volcano in two places and flow into the foot of the Pacific Ocean. In the area marked strong heat and several explosions. Finding into noticeably cooler water, the leaving lava raises the mass of evaporation into the air. In the vapor cloud, lava and acid particles are recorded, which makes the terrain of dangerous.






The diameter of the crater (about 4.5 km) is considered the largest in the world.

Lava fountains beat on a height of more than 20 meters. After one of the walls of the crater collapsed, the lava flows flowed down from cracks. Local authorities decided not to evacuate tourists yet, but their island movement is limited due to a natural disaster. So, the leadership of Natarina Hawaiian volcanoes are closed to drive the road in the Volcano area. However, it is possible to observe from the helicopter for the eruption.

In the vicinity of Kilauea, the level of sulfur dioxide (SO2) is elevated. For 5 June, the air rose in the air approximately 800 tons of SO2, whereas in 2003-2007, 140 tons per day evaporated on average. However, 800 tons is not 1700, which happened earlier.

From the neck of the funk-shaped depression at the foot of the crater Halema-Mind, the fever, perfectly prominent (in the photo) at night or even at the twilight with a naked eye.

Modis and GOES-WEST spacecraft continue to fix thermal anomalies. However, the level of seismic activity remains at a reasonable level, there are practically no noticeable earthquakes.

Part of the territory occupied by Kilauea is part of the National Park "Hawaiian Volcanoes".

Kilauea is considered to be the habitat of Pele - the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes. According to her behalf, some lava formations are named - for example, "pele tears" (small drops of lava, which are cooled in air and take the shape of tears) and "peel hair" (thin threads of volcanic glass - obsidian, resulting from rapidly cooling lava when flowing into ocean).

this eruption occurred almost a year ago, but I think this volcano will still show himself in all its glory.

Volcanic activity in Hawaii reaches his peak, and many people come here to see this brilliant spectacle. Guests of the Hawaiian National Park of Volcanoes can witness the activity of volcanoes and the formation of new craters, lava rivers and fountains of lava splashes. This fire heating paradise has 70 million years of volcanic activity, but this place has become a national park only in 1916.

Sulfuric gas rises from Crater Halehauma near Rainbow.

The crack between the Crater Puu and Napa from which the splashes of the lava are flying out.

A relatively small, but quickly moving lava stream strives past the coconut palm trees to the ocean. According to the service national Parks, Local trees help protect against fires fragile park ecosystems. Nevertheless, "the invasion and seats of foreign tropical and subtropical plants, which coincided with the current eruption of the Kilauea volcano, was the reason for increasing the frequency of fires three times compared with the historical level, and the average fire area increased 60 times.

The close-up of the crack, from which the lava splashes, rising into the air to the height of up to 10 meters.

A snapshot from the NASA satellite, on which the Clay of the ashes is captured, continuing to rise from the Kilauea Volcano on the largest island Hawaiian archipelago. Slim cloud cover allows you to clearly see the rush of the ashes, rising from the crater Puu. Along the coast of the island, small double loops are moving in the same direction. These loops rise from the hot lava reached the ocean. If you carefully look at this image, you can see that the entire landscape is written by lava flows.

The Lava Fountain over the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii beats at a height of 40 meters.

"Smoke Luke" in the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii.

A buggy fountain, approximately 10 meters high, sprinkled on the western edge from Puu Kahouuala. This first geological phase, by the beginning of the third phase he had 60 meters in height.

The ashes cloud, rising from the crater Puoo oo.

The lava handles separated from the main stream flows along a small rock.

The stream of lava from the western group of cones is moving through the forest down the slope.

Lava splashes from a hole in the northeast of Kamoamoa during eruption in March 2011.

Lava flows blocked the passage.

Tourists among the cooled lava in the Hawaiian National Park of Volcanoes.

"A warning! Move carefully on the tourist trail. "

Hawaiian Volcanoes National Park, USA.

Hawaiian Volcanoes National Park - a huge park complex area of \u200b\u200b1348 km². Park visitors will be able to see dramatic volcanic landscapes, as well as glimpses of rare species of flora and fauna.

On the territory of the Park you can observe the two largest in the world of active volcanoes: Kilauea and Maun Loa. In the list world Heritage UNESCO This volcanic complex has been from 1987.

The Hawaiian Volcano Park was founded in 1916 and since then annually attracts attention to millions of tourists. On its territory you can meet both already extinct volcanoes, covered with tropical forests and now existing ones. The terrain around the volcanoes is covered with huge layers of frozen lava, which accumulated here for the last 70 million years. Large eruptions were observed in Hawaiian volcanoes in 1924, 1982. And in 2008. Millions of years of eruptions were practically formed in the midst of the ocean a huge piece of sushi with its own unique ecosystem. Climatic conditions The park is quite diverse: from the dead desert Kau to huge arrays of rainforest.

Mauna Loa is the largest current volcano in the world. It is thanks to the eruptions of this volcano and half the island formed. Kilauea is the youngest volcano in Hawaii, which has a total story. It attracts great attention to tourists with its extensive activity and convenient location. Kilauea is surrounded by a 17-kilometer road ring, from which it is quite convenient to observe the life of the volcano. In addition, on the island you can visit whole chains underground cavesFormed due to the fact that the upper layer of lava freezes, and the lower continues to move.

More than half of the island are available for hiking walksAnd another half can be explored by car or helicopter. Hawaiian volcanoes park attend more than 2 million tourists annually. Since 1980, the park has been assigned the status of an international biosphere reserve.

Hawaiian Volcanoes National Park.

Founded in 1913, this park invites tourists to see a unique ecosystem that has been formed by the efforts of volcanoes for hundreds of thousands of years.

And Kilauea himself will gladly demonstrate to the guests of the park, as the Hawaiian Islands appeared and at the same time will share experiences, how much picturesque landscapes are obtained. Repeat, of course, you will not succeed, but it is possible to satisfy curiosity.

Starting from the foot of the mountains, accused at the bottom of the ocean, and to their vertices, supporting heaven, are unbelief volcanic landscapes stretched by 1348 square meters. km.

In addition to the Kilauea Volcano, which is considered a place of residence of the Hawaiian goddess of Pelle Volcanoes, in the National Park "Hawaiian Volcanoes" is and most large volcano on our planet - Maun Loa. Its height is 4168 m above sea level, and the volume is about 80,000 cubic meters. In addition, Maun Loa is the second largest volcano in the entire solar system after an extinguished Volcano Olympus on Mars.

Maun Loa is erupted, so his slopes are quite gentle. "Long Mountain" - how to translate from the Hawaiian name of the volcano - throws the lava to the outside, but apt. So, the explosions of 1926 and 1950. Simply destroyed nearby villages.

Another neighbor Kilauea - an extinguished volcano Maun Kea.. If it is measured from its height, ranging from the base, which is at a depth of 6000 meters at the bottom of the ocean, and to the top, then it will turn out 10 203 m, of which only 4205 m are visible - and this is much higher than Everest. So Maun Kea is most high volcano on the planet. His age is about a million years, and the last time the volcano won 4-6 thousand years ago.

Caldera Kilauea, similar to the boiling lake of the molten lava, 4.5 square meters. M and a depth of 230 m, makes it forces in a reverent silence and with a thrill and surprise to look at the power and beauty of the volcano, understanding why, in the past, Hawaiians brought gifts to the goddess of Pele, throwing them right into the firewriting crater.

But the top of Maun Kea is considered the most important of Hawaii's sacred peaks. Only the leaders were allowed to climb it. Today, the most real observatory is located on the extinct volcano - 13 telescopes are installed: after all, the Top Maun Kea is considered one of the best places on the land for astronomical observations.

Hawaiian volcanic National Park is famous for its volcanic activity. Here you can observe how landscapes and landscapes vary literally in your eyes, thanks to the Kilauea Volcano, one of the most active volcanoes on the planet
The park is the habitat of rare bird species, the unique forests of giant ferns are growing here.

Hawaiian Islands crowned underwater volcanic ridge and are the current volcanoes highest on Earth. Volcanic activity on the largest island of the archipelago, Hawaii Island, continues at present. Here is the Hawaiian Volcano National Park.

Hawaiian volcanoes are the US National Park created in 1916 on the island of Hawaii, the largest of the Hawaiian Islands.

Kilauela Volcano, the main volcano of the park, traditionally considered the sacred home of the goddess of the Pelle Volcano. Hawaiians visited Crater to bring gifts goddesses. The first white people rose to that volcano only in 1823, they became English Missionary William Ellis and American Asa Treston. That's what Ellis wrote later about the caldera of the volcano: "The performance sublighted and even a terrifying appeared before us. We stopped with trembling. Surprise and reverence in other moments made us to silence, and, as a statue, we froze in one place and our views were chained to The abyss under us. " Caldera Kilauela looks like a 4.5 square kilometer with a drop of 4.5 square kilometers and a depth of over 230 meters. Kilauela is one of the most active volcanoes of the world. He cannot calm down since 1983. Thomas Jeggger on the edge of that caldera arranged a museum. Exhibits are all that relates to volcanoes - scientific equipment, clothing used by volcanogues and so on. From some windows of the museum there is a wonderful view of Calaouela Caldera and Crater Galehaumau. The museum is called Jegg, who was the first head of the Hawaiian volcanic observatory adjacent to the museum. But for tourists, the entrance to the observatory is closed. In the park you can see the results of hundreds of thousands of years of volcanic activity. Which shaped the islands themselves and their environmental system. The park covers all heights - ranging from the sea level to the top of the island - Maun Loa volcano (4169). And Kilauea Volcano, one of the most active, gives scientists about the birth of the Hawaiian Islands and brings thoughts about the first volcanic landscapes. The park includes 1348 square kilometers.

Volcanic park, founded in 1916, is located in the south-east of the Great Island. The flesh of the park is 1348 sq. Km. Here you can see the Hawaiian jungle with gigantic ferns, unique volcanic formations, smoking crater.

The Park is a Volcanological Museum, where films demonstrate free daily for free. The main attraction of the Kilauea Caldera Volcano Park with its own steam cracks, sulfur evaporation and periodic eruptions. The two of his neighbor, less active Volcano Maun Loa and the dormant volcano Maun Kea, are towering about 4200m. above sea level, while their foundation rests on the ocean day, and this is about 4800m. Maun Kea is the most high mountain The world, if you measure it from the foot on the ocean day.

A unique park landscape is formed by volcanic activities. Travelers have a unique opportunity to see both sleeping volcanoes whose slopes are already covered with tropical forests and active, smoking crater. The frozen dark volcanic lava is a huge black river slides into the ocean, blocking the road, and forms a bizarre coastline. In a place where the lava falls into the ocean, couples climbs in the air and arches are formed. The unusualness of the landscape and his desert creates a feeling as if you were on the edge of the earth.

The Hawaiian Volcano National Park is the only one of its kind in the United States, which is at a considerable distance from the mainland.
The park contains two active volcanoes - Kilauea and Mauna Loa.
Kilauea is the most active volcano in the world and the youngest of ground Hawaiian volcanoes: he is only about 300-600 thousand years. Its restless character, the impulsiveness caused by the incessant movement of the magma, indicates the local Hawaiian name: "Ki-Lau-for" means "extinguishing". He is hallowing, which is characteristic of Hawaiian volcanoes, a somewhat convex thyroid cone, folded by basalt lava. The cone ends with an extensive caldera - a deepening, similar to a man-made quarry, depth of more than 200 m, at the bottom of which - Lava Lake Galelau-Mau (Halemaumau). Lake Burlit and splashing, throwing out the fountains of hot droplets capable of burning and metal, and stone.
From the bottom, from the depths of the earth, it gives such a giant force that one lake for the exit of lava is not enough, and along the western and southeastern rift zones, which diverges from the top of Kilauea, dozens of small craters and two cones - Puu-oo and Kuanajah - Of which the lava also follows.
No wonder that the newest story Kilauea covered legends. Hawaiians are confident that this is the Palace of the Goddess of Fire, Lightning and Pele Volcanoes. They also called lava formations in her honor: Pele's tears - the particles of lava in the form of droplets cooled in the air, the hair was breathing from the depths of the volcano and frozen lava splashes, algae of the pele - cooled and bursting in the swelling of the lava in the ocean bubbles of the lava.
Another volcano - Mauna Loa - stands in second place in the world in terms of volume and altitude (if we take into account the underwater part) and takes a good half of Hawaii. He also has a flat top, with a noticeably elongated form, which was reflected in the Hawaiian name of the volcano, which is translated as "Long Mountain". The volcano acting, here the eruptions are not uncommon - every 3-4 years. It differs from other volcanoes on the islands in that winter it is often covered with snow. According to Hawaiian legends, Mauna Loa lives one of the sisters of the goddess Pele, and the sisters will be entrusted, and therefore between the Mauna Loa volcanoes and is often blowing a very strong wind.
The first European stepped on in 1778 was the famous English navigator James Cook (1728-1779). After Cook, the Catholic missionaries who built several temples here were gained here.
Subsequently, planters settled here: they appreciated the fertile volcanic soil and broke a lot of sugar cane plantations, to work on which workers from Asia countries brought.
In 1916, a national park was founded on the combined demand of the population of the islands, scientists and state authorities and every economic activity in its borders is prohibited.
Hawaiian Volcano National Park is located on the island of Hawaii, in Hawaii, USA. On the territory of the park - two active volcanoes - Kilauea and Mauna Loa.
Hawaiians got sick with a noisy neighbor and even settle near the volcanoes, where the soil is fat, and nature took care of heating and hot water.
The founders of the park pursued two goals: first, create conditions for scientists who study the history of the appearance of the Hawaiian Islands and the processes of volcanism, and second - to satisfy the curiosity of all those wishing to enjoy the spectacle of the striking volcanic landscape, and also see wildlife Local flora and fauna.
Scientists work in a specially created volcanology station, as well as a geophysical observatory - the first permanent observatory of this type in the United States, open in 1912. Safe routes are organized for tourists: in the past, there were cases when frivolous and arrogant travelers were forever remained here by perishing in Floods of hot lava.
Hawaiians who live around volcanoes have developed a special rhythm of life depending on the eruptions. The soil around the volcanoes is very fertile, but during the eruption they throw away the Tefru (volcanic ash), hanging in the air and representing a danger to life. Subsequently, it falls in the form of acid rain. At this time, the islanders hold away from volcanoes, while doing, for example, fishing. The situation is pretty quickly restored, and people return to the usual classes, processing the soil near volcanoes.
But there are territories where it is impossible to live at all, like a wild desert Kau, completely covered with hardened lava, sand and gravel, irrigated acid rains. Local attraction - Footprints in the ashes of Kau desert - remained, according to Hawaiian legends, after the eruption of 1790. It was this year that the leader of Cathuul with warriors crossed the desert after the victory over the head of Cameoham, and eighty of his warriors suffocated because of Tefra.
Hawaii Island lies almost 4 thousand km from the nearest mainland ( North America). Here a unique animal and a floral world was formed, which is constantly threatened with the neighborhood with volcanoes. There are no no life directly near volcanoes, vegetation - wet tropical forests - appears at the foot and is represented by the tree-like ferns of the cybathium, a chain shrub of Freisinity and small trees of Psychotria of Marinian. There are almost no terrestrial animals (the most common - bissing turtle), but many birds, including such bright, like fiery and black and alaty Hawaiian flowers.
The city closest to the park is the port of Hilo, the largest on the island of Hawaii and the second in numbers after the capital of Honolulu. To the near neighborhood with acting volcano Mauna Loa city has long been accustomed to, but it scares something much more dangerous. The fact is that it is located on the shore of the Bay of the same name having the sad glory of the "All-American Capital Tsunami": by expanses Pacific Ocean Here they get tsunami even from the South American Chile and the Northern Aleuta Islands, sometimes carrying lives of dozens of inhabitants of Hilo.

general information

Location: North of the Pacific Ocean, Hawaiian Islands.
Administrative belonging: Hawaii, USA.

Official status: National Park.

In the UNESCO World Heritage List Since 1987
Nearest town: City of Hilo, 43 263 people. (2010).

Hawaii state languages: English and Hawaiian.

Ethnic composition of Hawaii: Asians (Philipins, Japanese, Chinese) - 38.6%, Americans of European origin - 24.7%, metises - 14.7%, Hawaiians - 10%, Latin Americans (Puertoricans and Mexicans) - 8.9%, African Americans and Others - 3.1% (2010).

Hawaii's religion: Christianity (Catholics and Mormons) - 28.9%, Buddhism - 9%, Judaism - 0.8%, other - 10%, outside religions - 51.3% (2000).

Currency unit: U.S. dollar.
The most important airport: international Airport Hilo.

Numbers

Park area: 1308.88 km 2.

Kilauea Volcano: Height - 1247 m, caldera with a diameter of 4.5 km and a depth of more than 230 m, rift zones (southeastern - 125 km, Western - 35 km).

Mauna Loa Volcano: Volume - 75 thousand km 3, height above sea level - 4169 m, height, taking into account the underwater part - 10 168 m, the length of the vertex is 75 km, the width of the vertex is 48 km, the crater is 10 km 2 and a depth of 180 m.

Distance between Kilauea and Mauna Loa crater: 30 km.
The length of roads with solid coating: 106 km.
The length of pedestrian trail: 249 km.

Remoteness: 3900 km west of San Francisco, 4400 km west of Seattle.

Climate and weather

Tropical, trade house.

The average temperature of January: + 19 ° C.

The average temperature of July: + 30 ° С.

The average annual amount of precipitation: up to 2500 mm.
Relative humidity: 70%.

Economy

Field of services: tourist, transport, trading.

sights

■ Natural: Kilauea Volcano (Caldera Kilauea, Lavova Lake Galeuau-Mau, or Halehau Mau, Pu-oo and Kuanaja Kaua), Kau Desert, Mauna Loa Volcano (Ainapo Path), Pouaul Pooula (Bird Park), Truston and Poua Caves -Lo (lava pipes), the road of the circuit chain.
■ Historical: footprints of 1790, Wilx Camp (1840), Volcanic House (Historical Houses for Tourists, 1877), Volcanic Observatory (1912), Rancho Ainau, or New Earth (1941), historical district Pune-kau, Puu-Loa petroglyphs.
■ Others: Art Gallery, Volcanic Center for Arts ("Volcanic House"), Museum of Thomas Jaggar.

Curious facts

■ The first European eruption of the Kilauea volcanic eruption occurred in 1823. Significant eruptions were noted in the 1950s. The last large-scale eruption of the Kilauea volcano occurred in 1983-1985. Since then, it will not stop in any way.
■ The city of Hilo's city closest to the park is in a wet tropical climatic zone, it is the third in the number of falling precipitation in the United States (after the Alaskan cities of Ketchikan and Yakutat) and one of the most rainy in the world: over a year over 5000 mm of precipitation falls here. The rains in the city can go with breaks up to 280 days a year, and on November 2, 2000, a record was set: per day fell almost 70 cm of precipitation.
■ Scientists explain the constant drilling of the volcanic lake Galelau-MAU in that the volcanic gas post is constantly incoming to it, which breaks over to the surface and makes it all the lake to fondan with splashes.
■ The age of lava covering 90% of the Kilauea Volcano Square is about a thousand years old, and the oldest - 2100-2800 years.
■ Kau Desert - popular place hiking tourist routesBut in the period of special volcanic activity, it is closed for visits due to the increased concentration of poisonous volcanic gases, which brought by trade winds.
■ boiling level lava Lake Galeuau-Mau is inconsistent, but sometimes it rises so high that it remains no more than 30 m to the Calder cut (its depth is 230 m).
■ The public of the Hawaiian Islands, advocating for following the national traditions, including writing titles, proposed to rename the park to the Hawaiian Volcano National Park, but the proposal was not supported at the federal level.
■ Elepayo's bird, living in the park, occupies an important place in the islanders folklore. Hawaiians believe that Elepayo helps the canoe builders choose the best tree for the boat housing. While in the forest, Hawaiians are watching the behavior of Elepayo: if the bird sits on the trunk of the tree, then there are many insect-tree-eyed in it, if it does not show any interest to him, the tree is clean and suitable for the construction of Canoe.
■ the greatest danger to the animal and vegetable world The National Park is not volcanoes, but the alien types of animals delivered here, especially the Mongoose, Caban and Goat.
■ Puu-Loa's rock paintings - the largest collection of ancient petroglyphs on Hawaiian Islands: Here are about 20 thousand.
■ Caves of the Hawaiian Volcanoes National Park are lava pipes, natural channels formed by the uneven cooling of lava flows: when the surface layer of the lava has already hardened, the lava continues to move and forms complex channels of channels. The length of the caves can reach several kilometers, the height of the arches is a few meters. The world record belongs to Casumura's cave on the Kilauea volcano slope, its length is 65.5 km, and the height difference is 1101 m.
■ In the area of \u200b\u200bvolcanoes, sulfur deposits come to the surface, there are volcanic gases in which there is a lot of hydrogen sulfide. Therefore, the Park Administration does not recommend going to these places to visitors with heart or respiratory diseases (in particular, suffering from asthma), pregnant women, young children.

National Park "Hawaiian Volcanoes" (Hawaii, USA) - exact location, interesting places, inhabitants, routes.

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The Hawaiian Volcano National Park refers to such a few places on the planet, where there is a unique opportunity for almost no risk for life to observe how the hot lava is erupted from the bowels of the earth. On its territory there is the most majestic in the Earth Mauna Loa and the most active - Kilauea, and over 3 million travelers come to them every year.

The park was founded in Hawaii in 1916, currently its area reaches about 1300 square meters. km. In 1987, he replenished the UNESCO World Heritage List, but interest among tourists and scientists is still from the 19th century.

Mauna Loa volcano reaches a height of 9100 m, and Kilauea never stopped erupting, since 1983

Volcanic activity in the protected area is manifested in geysers, lava flows and tubes, heat fields, stamps of craters, beaches with black sand and other phenomena. It can be seen on its territory both tropical vegetation and fruitless deserts that serve as a habitat of a variety of animals and insects. Including endangered, among which smiling spiders, Biss Turtles, carnivorous caterpillars, birds Nna. In a lot of park archaeological monuments Aborigines, from distinctive structures to the rarest concentrations of petroglyphs. But the main interest, represent, of course, volcanoes.

Volcanoes and what else to see

The difference between the archipelago volcanoes is that they belong to the category of "quiet" - the lava is erupting smoothly and flows through the slopes with slow waves, therefore it is not dangerous for the observer. The last eruption of Mauna Loa was recorded in 1984, but Kilauea is active constantly. But the lava is broken off from the crater, and at a distance of 15 km from it - through a crack. For more than 30 years of activity from the depths of Kilauea, 3.5 cubic meters were thrown. km Lava. Volcanoes Park are considered sacred Moz for local residents And in their mythology are presented as the abode of the deities of wind, lightning and fire.

In the park, you can not only watch the activity of volcanoes, but also organize trekking or ride in the deserts, jungle and cooled lavam fields on the jeep.

Other interests of "Hawaiian volcanoes" include the information center; Museum of Thomas Jagger with chic overview, observatory and souvenir shop; sulfur deposits; Huge caves of lava origin, fumarol (steam allocations of high temperatures from volcanic faults) and the aforementioned petroglyphs. Park provides hundreds of kilometers hiking routes And ideal camping opportunities. Lovers active rest Extreme jeep tours, mountain biking trips and flights on helicopters and even small aircraft over volcanoes, beaches, valleys and waterfalls.

Practical information

The park is located in the southeastern region of the Big Island of Hawaii, 48 km from the city of Hilo and 154 km from Kon. You can get to the place from these cities on buses or order a transfer from the hotel.

For those on the car: the park leads the N11 highway. Accurate coordinates: 19.418956; 155.301740.

Entrance to the territory is free, but for a car or bike will have to pay (information on the site). Park is open daily 24 hours a day; The mode of operation of the information center: every day from 7:45 to 17:00. Website (in English).