Did You Know...

1. Hawaii has no snakes.
2. Hawaii is the only state in which every resident belongs to a minority race.
3. The state has 750 miles of coastline.
4. Hawaii is the most isolated, populated place on earth. We are 2400 miles from the nearest land mass.
5. Every county in Hawaii is separated by water.
6. It snows on the Big Island in the winter, on Mauna Kea (white mountain) and Mauna Loa.
7. Not only is the Big Island the largest of all the Hawaiian Islands (it’s more then twice the size of all the other islands combined), but it’s also home to the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. Parker Ranch near Kamuela is 480,000 acres.
8. Hawaii is the only state that keeps on getting bigger.
9. That this island has special places of refuge and healing? (Coconut island and City of Refuge)
10. Ka Lae on the Big Island of Hawaii is the southernmost point in the United States. Visit here and you’ll notice a constant 27 knots per hour wind blowing east to west, 24 hours per day and 365 days per year.
11. King Kamehameha I moved the Naha stone. It weighs 3.5 tons and can be seen at Hilo's public library.
12. Hilo has the only rainforest zoo environment in America
13. The Big Island has 13 out the worlds 15 climates.
14. The state of Hawaii consists of eight larger, populated islands and 124 small, uninhabited islands, reefs and atolls stretching from the Big Island in the south to the Kure Atoll in the northwest.
15. The Hawaiian archipelago spans the distance of 1,524 miles (2,451 km) making Hawaii the longest island chain in the world.
16. The Hawaiian alphabet consists of only twelve letters. The five vowels are A,E, I, O,U. And the seven consonants are H,K,L,M,N,P,W.
17. Among all U.S. states, Hawaii has the highest percentage of women in the workforce, about 63 percent as of 2003.
18. More birds have become extinct in Hawaii than in any other part of the world. A total of 26 species died out and 27 more are endangered by changes in their natural habitats, forest destruction, mongooses and man.
19. Hawaii has the highest life expectancy in the United States. Life expectancy for males is 75, for females 80 years.
20. Kilauea volcano on the Big Island is the largest and most active volcano in the world.

21. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are home to more than 7,000 marine species, a quarter of which are found nowhere else in the world. One such marine species are the approximately 1,400 surviving Hawaiian monk seals, which is the entire population of this endangered species. The archipelago is also the breeding ground for 90 percent of the endangered Hawaiian green sea turtle. Huge schools of fish, many seabirds and an enormous coral reef can also be found on these islands.