Hawaii

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Climate
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Hawaii's climate is typical of a subtropical zone, but with less extremetemperatures and humidity, due to the moderating action exerted by the trade winds. Maximum summer temperatures rarely exceed 33 ° C and in winter (low elevation areas) do not usually fall more than18 ° C.4
Precipitation as snow, affects high elevations as Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa on the Big Island in some winter months. Rarely has snowed on Haleakala, Maui.
Mount Waialeale (Waialeale), onthe island of Kauai, is notable for rainfall it receives, the second highest in the world.
In 2003, Hurricane Jimena hit the islands in the hurricane season in the Pacific, 2003, which is notcommonly done in this.
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Geography
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All Hawaiian Islands were formed by volcanic action thatarose from the sea bottom, from a magma source in geology is called hot spot. This theory holds that the tectonic plate under the Pacific Ocean moves in a northwesterly direction, so that the hot spotremains stationary, slowly creating new volcanoes. For this reason, only the volcanoes in the southern half of the island of Hawaii are still active today.-------------------------------------------------

History
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The first colonization of Hawaii came from islands in the South Pacific, most likely from the Marquesas. By conqueringHawaii, these foreign-born residents-turned-on "Hawaiian." For about 800 years, these people lived in peace times and war times, as they were expanding their colonial territories by the eight mainislands. During this period, the Hawaiian people developed a complex social structure based on a caste system, governed by a wide range of religious taboos and social type, known as "kapu system"...