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HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL Oahu. On Franko’s Map of Pearl Harbor
PARK I actually drew an aerial view of Aloha
Stadium on the map (it is right next to
After an enormous effort to create Pearl Harbor). As I looked into
Franko’s Map Hawaii National Park Halemaumau, the legendary home of Pele,
Guide Map, which included unique and Goddess of Fire, I wondered how much
interesting new mapping technology, tons bigger is this crater than Aloha Stadium.
of research, and hiking and exploring the When I got home to my map making I
miles and miles of trails and roads of the took my Aloha Stadium image and scaled
park, it is at last done! I have come to love it next to Halemaumau Crater, and then
the Big Island for many reasons, but copied and pasted it over and over to see
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is the how many Aloha Stadiums would fit into
number one reason. It is so-o-o-o-o the crater. The answer was 15!
incredible! Only Yellowstone National Halemaumau is a huge crater. But wait,
Park is equally dynamic. To see just the the Halemaumau Crater is a relatively
Kilauea Caldera is amazing, but the whole small thing that sits within a much larger
park is so extraordinary that words crater called the Kilauea Caldera. This is
struggle to do it justice. Franko’s Hawaii the most famous feature of Hawaii
National Park Guide Maprelies on exactly Volcanoes National Park. So I estimated
5,999 words, 19 great photos, lots of how many Aloha Stadiums would fit
illustrations, and marvelous new mapping inside the Kilauea Caldera as well. The
techniques to present this wonderful answer is 150. This tidbit of interesting
National Park for your edification and information is on the map.
enjoyment. As THE map maker, it is hard
to be pleased with my own work. But Oh, When I first made Franko’s Dive Map of
my Goodness! I LOVE this map. Hawaii, The Big Island, back in the year
2000, I visited Hawaii Volcanoes
As I study and reviewFranko’s Hawaii National Park for my first time. I was
National Park Guide MapI am reminded interested in how immense the Mauna Loa
just how impressive this place is. I recall Volcano really is. I speculated that
walking out to the edge of Halemaumau Mauna Loa is the world’s largest
Crater at 7:00am, all alone on a typically mountain. With a bit of research I learned
cool morning. I watched the steam that I was right. At that time I did a
spewing from all kinds of holes and drawing (more like a computer
fissures and then went to the edge of the “painting”) of Mauna Loa, and compared
crater and peered in. I had been there its actual size to the greatest mountains in
several times before, but this time I was the world, such as Mount Everest,
trying to think of how to describe it on a Kilamanjaro, Mont Blanc, Aconcagua,
map. Just a few days before I had been to Matterhorn, and Mount Fuji. It turns out
Pearl Harbor and the Aloha Stadium on that Mauna Loa, the biggest feature of
