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Maui

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Maui

Early Polynesian and Maori hero, who steals fire from the Sun for human beings.

Maui

Island in Hawaii, USA, in the central Pacific, situated about 115 km/72 mi southeast of Honolulu (which is on the island of Oahu); area 1,885 sq km/728 sq mi; population (2000) 128,100. Maui is the second largest of the Hawaiian chain of islands and consists of two peninsulas divided by an isthmus of sand. The eastern peninsula contains the shield volcano of Haleakala, dormant since 1790, over 3,050 m/10,000 ft high and with a crater 30 km/19 mi in circumference. The chief towns are Lahaina, Wailuku, and Kahului. Tourism is the main industry; Maui has fine scenery, beaches, and resorts. Fruit and flowers are grown here.



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I was three years at Mills Seminary, with trips home, of course, and two years in New York; and then Dad went smash in a sugar plantation on Maui.
Adventure by London, Jack View in context
A few years since there was living on the island of Maui (one of the Sandwich group) an old chief, who, actuated by a morbid desire for notoriety, gave himself out among the foreign residents of the place as the living tomb of Captain Cook's big toe
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
But her amazement passed all bounds when he told her he had been on Maui, the particular island whereon she had attained womanhood and married.
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