Mauna Loa ...first snow
by Lehua Pekelo-Stearns
Title
Mauna Loa ...first snow
Artist
Lehua Pekelo-Stearns
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Photograph - Photography
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Although cold temperatures and snow may not come to mind when most people think about Hawaii, both Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa are high enough to permit snowfall during the winter. I took this photo one morning the first day of the year. We were driving up Mauna Kea road with the dogs Happy and Poi and found this around the bend and across from Mauna Kea! The first snowfall of the new day atop Mauna Loa just above the clouds. It was beautiful…and I didn’t want to forget this moment.
"Rising gradually to more than 4 km above sea level, Mauna Loa is the largest volcano on our planet. Its long submarine flanks descend to the sea floor an additional 5 km, and the sea floor in turn is depressed by Mauna Loa's great mass another 8 km. This makes the volcano's summit about 17 km (56,000 ft) above its base! The enormous volcano covers half of the Island of Hawai`i and by itself amounts to about 85 percent of all the other Hawaiian Islands combined."
Mauna Loa is among Earth's most active volcanoes, having erupted 33 times since its first well-documented historical eruption in 1843. Mauna Loa last erupted in 1984 and in Hawaiian means "long mountain"
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February 27th, 2012
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