Keomuku (ke-o'-mu'ku):
/ ke-o'-mu'ku /the shortened. Land section, Oahu.
Ke-ō-muku
Village, central Lā-naʻi. Lit., the shortened sand (ō is short for one).
Keōmuku
- 1. Beach, dive site, Keōmuku, Lānaʻi. A narrow, 6-mile-long detrital sand beach that stretches from Kahōkūnui to Halepalaoa. The dive site is off the former village.
- 2. Village, Keōmuku, Lānaʻi. Former fishing village that was briefly transformed into a plantation town in 1899 when Talula and Frederick Hayselden established the Maunalei Sugar Company at Keōmuku. Five hundred Japanese laborers were brought in to work the cane fields, a pier was constructed at Halepalaoa, and a narrow-gauge railroad was laid out between the pier and the village. The plantation folded by March 1901 after the bubonic plague of 1900 dccimated its workforce and the fresh-water sources for its irrigation turned brackish.
- 3. Whaleboats, Keōmuku, Lānaʻi. Three abandoned whaleboats seaward of Ka Lanakila o Ka Malamalama Church (1903) in Keōmuku village. The boats mark the location of the shore in 1935. The present shore is approximately 500 feet seaward of the boats, the result of soil erosion and runoff into the ocean.
Literally, the shortened sand. The o in Keōmuku is a contraction of one, or "sand."
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