Transformation of the island for mass tourism helped turn it into a tinderbox that has claimed 96 lives so far.
Right. Yeah, Lahaina is one of those places. You know, it’s some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. It’s on the leeward side of the mountain, so it’s very warm. You know, it’s also a place of lots of water. So this is one of the things also maybe we’ll get a chance to talk about later.
And into more modern history, Lahaina specifically was, you know, really the capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and that’s because of its protected and sheltered waters from the ocean, you know, right into the early whaling period, in fact, into the beginning of the Hawaiian Kingdom. And it was really during the Hawaiian Kingdom period that Lahaina starts to play a very important role as kind of a commercial center for trade, where ships from all over the world would dock and so forth.
And so, you know, for a long period, up into the mid-1850s, Hawaii was seen as, again, the main capital. During that period of growth, especially economic growth, there was a huge transformation, where agriculture and because of the large amounts of water in the area — in fact, the major area in Lahaina, one of the names, in fact, was Waine’e. The wordmeans “to move.
And I think that’s also one of the issues that you’ll find, if you look deep enough, you’ll kind of find, which caused a major transformation of the land itself.
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