Big Island

Hawaii, commonly referred to as the Big Island, is appropriately named as it’s the biggest of the six major Hawaiian Islands and accounts for 63 percent of the state’s total landmass. It’s 4,038 square miles and, as long as lava continues to spew out of Kilauea, still growing. About 150,000 people live on the Big Island (it’s the second-most populated island after Oahu), but it has the lowest population density, barely twenty-five people per square mile. It’s almost twice the size of all the other Hawaiian Islands put together. Of all the islands, the Big Island is the most ecologically diverse, with natural environments ranging from the desert plains of...
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