This weeks national park is a very different one than any we have talked about previously. Hawaii Volcanoes national park has two different volcanoes, Kīlauea and Mauna Loa. The park is over 500 square miles of land became its own park in the 1960's. Mauna Loa is the worlds largest and most active volcano in the entire world. The volcano is almost 4 miles high. The park started seeing tourists after two business men built hotels for people to visit and mad the volcanoes a huge icon and sight for people to see. The two volcanoes are over 70 miles long and 30 miles wide. That means this volcano is larger than the four smallest countries in the world even if they were all combined into one. The most recent explosion from either of these volcanoes was in March of 2008 and luckily it was a very small explosion. When your visiting this park be careful not to get too close just in case one of them does erupt!
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park
This weeks national park is a very different one than any we have talked about previously. Hawaii Volcanoes national park has two different volcanoes, Kīlauea and Mauna Loa. The park is over 500 square miles of land became its own park in the 1960's. Mauna Loa is the worlds largest and most active volcano in the entire world. The volcano is almost 4 miles high. The park started seeing tourists after two business men built hotels for people to visit and mad the volcanoes a huge icon and sight for people to see. The two volcanoes are over 70 miles long and 30 miles wide. That means this volcano is larger than the four smallest countries in the world even if they were all combined into one. The most recent explosion from either of these volcanoes was in March of 2008 and luckily it was a very small explosion. When your visiting this park be careful not to get too close just in case one of them does erupt!
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