Hawai'i

See also: Hawaii, Hawaií, Hawaiʻi, and Hawai`i

English

Proper noun

Hawai'i

  1. Alternative spelling of Hawaiʻi
    • 2000, “Abstracts”, in Rebecca Paulson, editor, Science in an Uncertain Millenium: 2000 AAAS Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition: February 17-22, 2000 Washington, DC, →OCLC, page A43, column 1:
      The evidence from Hawai’i, Mesoamerica, the American Southwest, and Old World Bronze Age cultures indicates that transient celestial events were not only recognized and categorized, but formed a critical component of mythology, cosmology, politics, religion, and formative science.
    • 2005, Field, Christopher, “Director’s Report”, in Year Book 03/04 President’s Report, Carnegie Institution of Washington, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 73, 76:
      Greg Asner and colleagues are using remote sensing and high-altitude aircraft combined with field studies to understand the changing ecology in Hawai'i. Their field site on the island of Kauai is shown here. []
      Using a different approach to map invasives, Greg used satellite data from Tahiti to develop a signature for Miconia calvescens, a destructive invasive plant on both Tahiti and Hawai’i.
    • 2006 July 6, Bearns, Melissa, “Sweet Summer Melodies”, in Eugene Weekly, What's Happening, Inc., →OCLC, page 37, column 1:
      Billboard Magazine dubbed Hawai’i-based Hapa “the hottest Hawai’ian band,” and PBS did a whole feature on them. Well, move over, Hapa, because the Barefoot Natives are coming to town. And for local lovers of island grooves, the addition of this amazing two-man band to the Hawai’ian roster illustrates the saying that you can’t have too much of a good thing.
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