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Kilauea Iki, meaning little Kilauea, is the still seething
remnant of a quite recent (1959), spectacular eruption that filled the
crater with a molten lake of lava and threw fire fountains as much as
1900 feet in the air. For a sense of scale, the worlds tallest
building, the Taipei 101 which is 101 stories tall and 1667 feet high,
would be dwarfed by these fire fountains.
Distances across the
crater are hard to guess, as steam jets up from small cracks in the
now-hardened lava-lakes surface and the minute specks of hikers cross
its black expanse, but the crater today is more than a mile long, 3000
feet across and almost 400 feet from the rim to the surface. At its
peak, the volcano spewed about two million tons of lava per hour;
however, between spurts, much of this liquid drained back into the
subterranean plumbing of the caldera, thus giving the distinctive
ring-around-the-crater look to Kilauea Iki.
Video written
and produced by Donald B. MacGowan; videography by Frank Burgess and
Donald MacGowan; Narrated by Frank Burgess, Original music written and
performed by Donnie MacGowan. For more information about traveling the
Big Island in general and Island Activities in particular, visit
www.tourguidehawaii.com, www.tourguidehawaii.blogspot.com and
www.lovingthebigisland.wordpress.com.
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