In aboriginal pre-contact Hawaii, all land belonged to the king. Its use was
let out in exchange for tribute through a feudal hierarchy to communal groups in
holdings called "ahupua'a." They ran "from the mountain to the sea" in
pie-shaped corridors, giving each community access to all of the different
natural resources occasioned by the various elevations and climates on an
island. Beginning in 1848, King Kamehameha III undertook a land reform called
the "Great Mahele" in which land ownership was parceled out to the king, the
chiefs, the government, and the commoners. These grants continued to follow the
ahupua'a design. Their vestiges are found in the land survey system to this
day. Thus, boundaries of many kinds tend to focus on the peaks.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "m donner" <maxivan82@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 7:23 AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] erupting vertex with molten vortex found
> now dont get too excited because this isnt an erupting multipoint yet
> nor even a multipoint at all
> http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?t=2&s=14&x=82&y=671&z=5&w=2
> & it may not even be a real boundary point for that matter
> since it involves only the thin red sort of line we just met at mauna loa
> trying to stretch adams thick red molten tripoint into a quadripoint
> & i still havent figured out what such a line is supposed to separate from
> what
>
> but the find is still very clearly another giant step in the desired
> direction
> & indeed the first known case of a simple turn point vertex fixed within a
> crater
> rather than at a summit
>
> nor is this just any crater but the recently active halemaumau crater in
> kilauea caldera
> official residence of the volcano goddess pele herself
> so what could be more propitious of continuing success
>
> & for an account of the molten vortex centered on this erupting turn point
> or vertex
> http://www2.lapietra.edu/web/159/test/kilauea/halemaumau.html
>
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