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1976: Hokule'a (“Star of Gladness”), a traditional double-hulled voyaging canoe sails<br />

from Hawai’i to Tahiti in a month’s time. The voyage is meant to symbolize a cultural<br />

renaissance in the Hawaiian Islands and recalls ancient canoe contact between the two<br />

Polynesian groups.<br />

1979: Hawai’i attracts four million visitors during the year.<br />

1982: Hurricane Iwa strikes Kaua‘i causing an estimated $234 million in damages.<br />

1983: The volcano Kilauea on the Big Island erupts and has been continuously erupting<br />

ever since.<br />

1986: John Waihe’e becomes the first elected state governor of Hawaiian ancestry.<br />

1987: A department of Hawaiian Studies is established at the University of Hawai’i.<br />

1990: A statue of Duke Kahanamoku is erected at Kuhio Beach in Waikiki.<br />

1992: Hurricane Iniki causes massive devastation on Kaua‘i. It is the most destructive<br />

storm to hit Hawai’i in historic times. Dole Foods Co. closes down Lana’i Plantation.<br />

Voyaging canoe Hokule‘a returns from a 5,500 mile-long voyage, including a first-time<br />

voyage to Rarotonga.<br />

1993: 100th anniversary of the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Rev. Paul Sherry,<br />

president of the United Church of Christ of the United States, formally apologizes to<br />

native Hawaiians for the church’s role in the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy. The<br />

United States Senate apologizes to Hawaiians for the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian<br />

Kingdom in 1893. President Clinton signs a Congressional Resolution acknowledging the<br />

illegality of the overthrow. A statue of the controversial Robert William Kalanihiapo<br />

Wilcox is unveiled in Wilcox Park in Downtown Honolulu.<br />

1994: The first regularly scheduled Hawaiian-language news broadcast is presented on<br />

public radio. The radioactively damaged island of Kaho‘olawe is returned by the federal<br />

government to the State of Hawai‘i.<br />

1998: About 6.5 million tourists visit Hawai’i.<br />

Appendix II: Island Maps<br />

The following maps are copied from Sonia P. Juvik/James O. Juvik (eds.), Atlas of<br />

Hawai’i, Honolulu 1998: xiii, and Robert Wallace (ed.), Hawaii, Amsterdam 1996:<br />

frontispiece.<br />

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