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Dive site, landing, state recreation pier (.9 acres), Līhuʻe, Kauaʻi. On the south point of Hanamaʻulu Bay. This site was known as Ahukini Landing when it was a landing for inter-island steamers. During the early 1920s, Ahukini Terminal Company constructed a 300-foot pier and breakwater and dredged a turning basin. The pier was the first on Kauaʻi that could accommodate large vessels and was used extensively until the end of World War II. After the war, shipping operations were relocated to Nāwiliwili Harbor, which had been improved to accommodate vessels too large to enter Ahukini. The facilities at Ahukini were abandoned by 1950. The pier was dismantled, and in 1978 the state converted the landing into a park. The dive site is off the park and is used for beginning divers. Literally, altar [for] many [blessings] or many altars.