マウナ・ケア 1 Mauna Kea

マウナ･ケア（冬には雪が積もり白くなるのでケア･白い山と呼ばれている）は標高4205ｍ（富士山より450mも高い）、ハワイ州で一番高い山。日本のスバルを含め天文台が数多くあるので有名。
Mauna Kea is the highest mountain in the State of Hawaii, 4205m above sea level, 450m higher than Mt.Fuji. It is called White(Kea) mountain because its top becomes white with snow when winter.
It is very famous, as there are many astronomical observatories on the summit.


この写真はヒロの海岸からまともに4200ｍ見上げたところで天文台が白くみえる。この海岸は美しい湾で、砂地も少しある。亀も泳いでいる。

This photo was taken from the coast of Hilo. You look up 4200m so you see the Observatories just white spots.

It is a beautiful gulf beach with sand little bit. Sometime Turtles swim with us.

マウナ･ロアの頂上は天文台が林立している。一番左側の特殊な形をしたのがスバル

Many Observatories are there on top of it. Subaru has deferent form from others, leftmost, and Keck Ⅰ,Ⅱ, right side, are typical type.

ケアの頂上に点在するスコリア丘。溶岩を小石状に噴き出して、阿蘇山の米塚や伊豆の大室山のような丘を作っている。

Many Scoria hills (cinder cone) are there in the Mauna Kea. Crater ejected so many lave balls and they were piled around there and made hill just like YONEDUKA in Aso Mt. and OOMUROYAMA in Izu peninsula.

飛行機からの遠望。右はマウナ･ロア、丘のように見えるが4163ｍもある。

Distant view from the airplane. Mauna Loa is right of Kea, though it is 4165m high it looks like just a hill .