Blow Hole – Oahu, Hawaii
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Two shirtless men stand on the lava rock point at the Hālona Blowhole on Oahu’s southeast coast, near a small marker post, with sea spray and breaking surf below and the open Pacific beyond. 1940.
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This photograph is from the personal collection of photographs taken by CPL William Stinson Brown while stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii before the infamous attack of 7 December 1941. CPL Brown was there during the attack. These unique photographs were donated to the COGG Honor Archive for public use of students, writers and researchers of history. The generous donation was from CPL William S Brown’s, son, William Stinson “Bill” Brown Jr. and his loving granddaughter Caitlin Brown Clancy. Hālona means “lookout” in Hawaiian, a fitting name for this clifftop point above the Ka Iwi coastline. The blowhole is fed by a lava tube running from the shoreline out under the rock shelf; when surf and tide conditions are right, incoming waves are forced up through the narrow opening and burst into the air, sometimes reaching thirty feet or more.