2007-02-13 10:51:16 · 16 answers · asked by boots_are_made_walkin_19 1 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Honolulu
Everyone else is wrong. It is neither an island or a state. It is a peninsula jutting out from the upper left side of pangea's bottom right coast.
2007-02-15 04:17:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hawaii is an island (the largest one) in a chain of islands known as the hawaiian islands, formerly the sandwich islands. The group of islands, also collectively joined the united states back in 1959.
hawaii is not a peninsula at all, but part of the islands do contain them. That is an three-sided part of the land like florida or cape cod that have water on the three sides.
2007-02-13 11:03:37 · answer #2 · answered by Lisa H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hawaii is our 50th state, and is made up of Islands. The island of Hawaii, or the big Island, Maui, being 2nd in size, then Oahu, Then Kauai. Of course there are the smaller islands like Lanai, and Molokai. Remember, a peninsula, is attached to the land, but reaches out into the ocean, and an island is fully surrounded, by ocean...............
2007-02-14 10:09:21 · answer #3 · answered by Ron 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hawaii is a group of Islands. However, Honolulu, the state capital, is located on the island Oahu. The surrounding islands around Oahu make up the state of Hawaii.
2007-02-13 11:00:59 · answer #4 · answered by jeffrey_alvarez2002 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both an island and a state:
The big island is also known as the island of Hawaii, it has 2 active volcanos, and 2 "cities"on it (Hilo and Kona), I think there is also an observatory, coffee plantations, an airport.
Their is also the state which consists of a group of islands....
It is a bit confusing, kind of like New York, New York---the Big Island is technically, HAWAII, HAWAII...
2007-02-14 15:55:37 · answer #5 · answered by Paris Hilton 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is the state of Hawaii, which includes all the Hawaiian Islands.
There is also the island of Hawaii--- referred to as the Big Island (because--- of course--- it is the biggest island in the chain)
2007-02-13 12:52:12 · answer #6 · answered by Rani 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hawai‘i is the most remote archipelago in the world...
Mere dots in the vast Pacific Ocean, the Hawaiian archipelago is 2,400 miles from any continent. The chain reaches from the Big Island of Hawaii to Kure Atoll 1,500 miles to the northwest and is still growing. A series of mountain-top islands and seamounts, emerged from the ocean floor to form the Hawaiian archipelago. This island chain is among the longest and most isolated of tropical and sub-tropical island chains in the world. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands or Leeward Islands constitute the northern two-thirds of this vast chain.
2007-02-16 17:15:38 · answer #7 · answered by compaq presario 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is an Island. The island group is a state.
2007-02-13 10:56:34 · answer #8 · answered by temotatu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a state that happens to be made up of a group of islands. So, you can call it the island state.
2007-02-13 10:59:22 · answer #9 · answered by Joan G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a part of the United States, It is an Island and it is beautiful!
2007-02-13 11:31:20 · answer #10 · answered by emailcsieg 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋