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Using Ulukau, The Hawaiian Electronic Library
PLACE NAMES Now, click on "Ulukau" at the top of any page and go back:
Once there, click on another special feature, the fourth one on this screen, "Hawaiian Place Names." Click on that and see this:
This site contains thousands of place names. It operates a lot like the newspapers site. Along near the top is a horizontal bar that has four options. The first one is "intro." Click it and see this:
This is a long document that explains quite a bit about place names in Hawaiʻi and how this website was researched. Next, click on the word "names" on the top horizontal bar, and you will see this:
All the thousands of names are arranged here in alphabetical order. These are the names beginning with "a". Near the top are the other letters, "b", "c", and so forth, and they bring up more lists until all the names are given. Now, on the top horizontal bar, click on "search", and that gives you a familiar page that looks like this:
Type in "waimea" and hit "Enter" and you will see this:
It says "results" and then it tells you that there were "198 entries found for waimea." Under that, it lists the 198 times it found "waimea." Look, for example, at the second one on the list. Notice how it gives you some basic information:
Laauokala Point Island: Kauaʻi Ahupuaa: Makaweli Features: boundary point, point Comments: "Boundary of Waimea commences at the sea beach at the mouth of the Waimea River at a place called Laauokala..." So, this gives you the name of the place (Laauokala Point). It tells you the island (Kauaʻi). It tells you which land division (ahupuaʻa) it is in, namely Makaweli. It tells you that it is a boundary point, or just a point. And it gives a quote about the place, namely that it is one of the boundary points for Waimea. Let's take that choice, and click on the little symbol to the left of Laauokala Point, and we will see:
If we had clicked on any of the items on the alphabetical-list of place names, this is the type of thing that we would have seen. It gives the full description of this place name: the island (Kauaʻi), the land division/ahupuaʻa (Makaweli), the fact that it is a boundary point, and the comments. It also says you can go look up ("cf") the place "Kalaauokala" if you wanted to (it is another name for the same place). If the website is able to show how the word can be studied (lexicology), it does so (it is from lāʻau-ʻōkala, meaning "bristly tree" according to "PEM", the Pukui/Elbert/Mookini place names dictionary). A source is given: the "BCT" (broundary commission testimony), and the "USGS" (United States geologic survey) -- these are explained in the introduction. All of Hawaiʻi has very excellent official maps from the United States geologic survey, and these are called "Quadrangle" maps. Quadrangle map number 30-05 shows this place. If the precise location of the place is known, then it is given. In this example, the latitude and longitude is north 43,800 and east 442,800. Every place name on this website has a catalog number, and that is also given. Next, go to the horizontal bar at the top and click on "browse" and you will see this:
This lists islands or parts of islands. Click on one, like "Kauaʻi", and you will see this:
Notice how it gives two kinds of browsing options for Kauaʻi: either by the land divisions (ahupuaʻa) or by features. For now, click on "features" and see this:
You can scroll down. Here is a list of different kinds of land features: bays, beaches, boundary points (like the name Laauokala that we researched above), canoe sheds, and so forth. Click on "beach" and you'll see this:
These are all beach names on Kauaʻi that come from the sources behind this website. Any of these place names can be clicked on. Continue to next section...
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