#Greater Maui
Hawaiian Moment: The Big Island – Hawaiʻi Island or Maui Nui?
Maui Nui or Greater Maui, is a modern geologists’ name given to a prehistoric Hawaiian Island built from seven shield volcanoes. Nui means “great/large” in the Hawaiian language. This concept was first proposed 60 years ago by geologist Harold Stearns, who “recognized the geologic evidence for repeated episodes of island submergence and reemergence,” according to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
