2008-11-15T09:27:19-08:00 13465 9197 12334 1 2008-11-15T09:27:19-08:00 2008-11-15T09:27:19-08:00 <p><span>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. <br><br>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.<br><br><br>Video written and produced by <a target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.plaxo.com/profile/show/193274806748?pk=5bdb642e1777514011136c8844cfb6429e46e6c9" href="http://www.plaxo.com/profile/show/193274806748?pk=5bdb642e1777514011136c8844cfb6429e46e6c9">Donald B. MacGowan</a>; videography by Frank Burgess and <a target="_blank" mce_href="http://bigislandvideohui.ning.com/profile/DonaldBMacGowan" href="http://bigislandvideohui.ning.com/profile/DonaldBMacGowan">Donald MacGowan</a>; Narrated by Frank Burgess, Original music written and performed by <a target="_blank" mce_href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert_bio=Donald_MacGowan" href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert_bio=Donald_MacGowan">Donnie MacGowan</a>. For more information about traveling the Big Island in general and Island Activities in particular, visit <a target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.tourguidehawaii.com" href="http://www.tourguidehawaii.com">www.tourguidehawaii.com</a>, <a target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.tourguidehawaii.blogspot.com" href="http://www.tourguidehawaii.blogspot.com">www.tourguidehawaii.blogspot.com</a> and <a target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.lovingthebigisland.wordpress.com" href="http://www.lovingthebigisland.wordpress.com">www.lovingthebigisland.wordpress.com</a>.</span></p><p><br></p> 28066 9197 1 13465 1 2008-11-15T09:45:18-08:00 7035 2008-11-15T09:36:00-08:00 The Finest Hike at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park... 28067 9197 3 13465 1 2008-11-15T09:46:20-08:00