With all but two of the world’s climate zones found within the 4,028 square miles known as Hawaiʻi, or by its nickname “Big Island,” you can encounter everything from lava desert to snow-topped volcano, making for great land/sea/mountain-scapes – a golf course designer’s paradise!
The island boasts some other notables including -
- the two tallest mountains in the world (if measured from their base on the ocean’s floor)
- largest, most continually active volcano
- the highest lake in the world
- one of the largest triathlons in the world
- the southernmost point of the United States
- the state’s #1 visitor attraction – Hawaiʻi Volcano National Park, a
UNESCO World Heritage Site (one of two UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Hawai’i)
- highest free-fall waterfall in the State
- largest lava tube known
- the largest valley in the State
- the oldest/most preserved Hawaiian temple
- largest annual hula festival
and much more!
