Hawaii_Karoline_Lynn

Hey everybody !:) Welcome to our Wikipage. Our names are Lynn and Karoline. We are both 16 years old, and we are going on Sauda VGS, 1STA. Some things we like to do at our sparetime is to chill out with friends, listen to music or watch movies :-) We hope you will like to read what we have written about Hawaii!



__History__ The first people came to Hawaii from Polysenia in their canoes about 1.500 years ago. The canoe trip was about 3.200 kilometers. They came to the islands from Polynesia with a very strict religion who was a hierarchical social community 500 years later. The first European who visited the islands in 1778 was the English explorer James Cook. He gave them the name Sandwich Islands because he was going to honor the British Earl of Sandwich. James Cook travelled back to Hawaii two years later, but when he got there some people who lived on the Islands killed him. James Cook died the 14 of February in 1779. In the year 1900, the sugar industry got strong and many people from Japan, Kina, Philippines and Portugal came to the Islands to immigrate. John L. Stevens who was an American consul took over the kingdom after the sugar industry, and then Hawaii became a part of USA. American naval base called Pearl Harbor at the island. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor with many aircrafts and submarines. Many people got killed, many aircrafts were damaged and 21 American warships were destroyed. There were some things at Pearl Harbor which fortunately survived, for example the very important oil, the industrial company and some workshops.

The 7th of December in 1942, the Japanese attacked the Hawaiian’s flag consists of white, red and blue stripes with the British flag in the corner. The stripes represent the eight main islands, and the reason why the flag of the UK was decorated in the left corner was Hawaii’s friendship with the British people.

__Hawaii is the only state that:__ One of the highest mountains in Hawaii is the Mauna Kea that is 4.025 m high.
 * Isn’t geographically located in North America
 * Grows coffee as the only state in USA
 * Is completely surrounded by water
 * Is entirely an island with small islands around
 * Has a royal place

Every island on Hawaii is made by volcanoes magma source. Hawaii has about 137 islands with an area of 16.634 km². The 8 big islands are [|Niʻihau], [|Kauaʻi] , [|Oʻahu] , [|Molokaʻi] , [|Lānaʻi] , [|Kahoʻolawe] , [|Maui] , [|Hawaiʻi].

__Climate__ Hawaii is a place where it is never too hot or too cold. There are mild temperatures with sunny skies and the wind is weak. Hawaii has a typical tropical climate. The temperature is a little bit less extreme than the other islands in the east. In the summer there are usually 31°C during the day and in the nights there was a  bout 24°C. The winter is the temperature about 28°C and in the night 18°C. Hawaii has no winter seasons with snow. It snows usually at 4.205 m on the Mauna Loa in some winter months. The most islands have only two seasons: the dry season from May to October, and the wet seasons from October to April. You can see rainbows, also known as “anuenue” in Hawaii very often when you are there. It is not usual to see two or more rainbows together.

__Volcanoes__ Every island was made by volcano. The Shield volcanoes are the biggest on earth. On Hawaii, the biggest island, are the Mauna Loa and the Kilauea, which are active, and the last eruption was in 1983. 28 km southeast from the Kilauea is the under sea volcano [|Lōʻihi]. He is one of the youngest volcanoes which are connected with the Hawaiian chain. Earthquake results show that the volcano is active.

__ Why do they speak English on Hawaii and not Hawaiian? __ On Hawaii they speak Hawaii Creole English (HCE or Hawaii Pidgin English). A Creole language is a mixture of various languages. It has a basis of English with some Hawaiian and European languages like Asian as rest words. An example of Hawaiian Creole English is: “Da Kaet ste in da haus = the cat in the house” USA became a part of the World War when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour in 1941. When the war was over, 90% of the Hawaii people voted that they would continue to be Americans. Hawaii became the 50th state of America at August 21 in 1959.

__ History of HCE __ It began in the 19th century, when some immigrants came to Hawaii to make pineapples and sugarcane. They needed to talk to the native people. In the early 20th century the HCE language compensate the native Hawaiian language nearly completely, because the native got s  ick and died.

__ Today’s Spreading __ In 1986 more than 600.000 people spoke Hawaiian Creole English, but the people who had English as Standard language could not understand the dialect. People who were born on Hawaii can change without problems from HCE to Standard English. The official languages on Hawaii are only Hawaiian and English. HCE is only used by the native people. In 1987, after a conflict, was HCE an official language on public schools.

__ Flora and Fauna __ In the primitive times Hawaii only had 300 species of flowering plants. The world has more than 20.000 kinds of orchids, but only Hawaii has 3 native orchids. The flower of state in Hawaii is the hibiscus. Hawaii has no predators therefore have the plants no thorns to resists themselves. And that’s why Hawaii has so many different plants that you only can find on Hawaii. 89% of plants on Hawaii are native.

__ Plants __ Since the Hawaiians had no herbivorous mammals, there are no nettle or mint flavours.

__ The influence of the humans __ Since the humans settle to Hawaii more than the halves of the native birds are dead. They brought many useful plants and animals with them, and the not-native animals died because of the plants and animals they brought to the Island.

The wild dogs and the wild rats damage a  lot. Specially when they hunt t  he native animals.

__ Population __ The Hawaii islands have at all 1.2 million inhabitants. The capital Honolulu, which is the biggest city on Hawaii, has about 39.000 inhabitants. The biggest population group was build by the Asians in 2000 with 41, 6 %, 24, 3 % was from Europe, 7, 9 % was from Polynesia and 1, 8 % was black.

In 1941, short before the attack on Pearl Harbour, Hawaii had only 6% (22.000) native people of all 370.000 inhabitants.

__Culture__ Fish catching and farming were ve  ry high developed. The use of the natural resources was divided in different areas on the islands. Hula is a Polynesian dance. media type="youtube" key="QaZS0kRgBGI" height="299" width="365" align="center"

One of the famous celebrities of Hawaii are: - Jack Johnson - Nicole Kidman - Barack Obama - Kelly Preston - Nicole Scherzinger


 * __ Similitaries between Hawaii and the UK __**

__ Halloween in UK and Hawaii __ Hawaii and the UK are both celebrating Halloween They are having many different costumes and trick or treat. The Hawaii people are using Hula dancer costume with bright Hawaiian colours and sometimes a bride or Hawaiian princess. They are also using Hawaiian fashion. The people in the UK are having natural Halloween costume, for example witches, ghosts and also bride costumes like the Hawaiian people. They are also throwing eggs at people’s door if they are not getting candy, just like us in Norway.

__ Christmas in UK and Hawaii  __ They are also celebrating Christmas. Here are some similarities between Hawaii and the UK at the Christmas day: Another thing that both of them are celebrating is thanksgiving. At the Thanksgiving Day, they are eating turkey as the main course.
 * Both of them are eating cookies and bread at the Christmas Day.
 * They have a Santa Claus. (The Santa in Hawaii is using Hula clothes and the Santa in the UK is using ordinary red Santa Claus costume)
 * They have the same Christmas tree with Christmas decorations and lights.

Hawaiian’s flag consists of white, red and blue stripes with the British flag in the corner. The stripes represent the eight main islands, and the reason why the flag of the UK was decorated in the left corner was Hawaii’s friendship with the British people.

__ Some other similarities: __ Hawaii and the UK do also have some of the same sports. Some examples are football, volleyball, golf, baseball, boxing and surfing.

__ Some traditions in Hawaii and the UK __ Traditions at the wedding day: When people are getting married, they are using grown up bridesmaids. The person that is helping and giving books to the gests in the church is a friend of the groom. The newly married couples have to give small gifts to their friends, bridesmaids and to the persons that is helping them at the wedding day. Another thing that is normal is that the women ar  e using a hat, and that the bridal bucks are thrown to the ladies. They are also using a ring pillow for the wedding rings in the church, instead of just having them in the pocket.

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