Big Island
Big Island is a volcanic island also known as The Island of Hawaii, having the area about four thousand square miles. It is also the largest island in the United States.
The Island of Hawaii is totally built from five volcanoes. It is also famous for its volcanoes These volcanoes erupted sequentially and overlapped each other. These five volcanoes are (from past to new) as:
- Kohala,
- Mauna Kea,
- Hualalai,
- Mauna Loa, and
- Kilauea.
The population of teh island is nearly about one fifth of the millon people. Today, most of Hawaii Island’s economy is based on tourism, but earlier it was depandent on Sugercane only which began to downsize steadly and been closed.
If we talk about economy of Big Island then it’s mainly based on tourism.Big Island is famous for its volcanoes.it’s the most active and has been erupting from almost two decades. At the coast where lava meets the ocean,you can actually see billiows of white steam sometimes.at night lave lights up the steam and gives an orange glow.when the moltem lava makes contact with the ocean,the sea water turns into steam, and the sudden cooling of the lava causes the newly formed lava rocks to explode and crack into small pieces.