| Lānai is the sixth-largest of the Hawaiian Islands. It is also known as Pineapple Island because of its past as an island-wide pineapple plantation. The only town is Lānaʻi City, a small settlement. The island is somewhat circular in shape, with a width of 18 miles in the longest direction. The land area is 140 square miles (367 kmē). It is separated from the island of Molokaʻi by the Kalohi Channel to the north, and from Maui by the Aau Channel to the east. Lānai was first seen by Europeans on February 25, 1779, when Captain Clerke sighted the island from aboard James Cook's HMS Resolution. Clerke had taken command of the ship after Cook was killed at Kealakekua Bay on February 14, and was leaving the islands for the North Pacific. In 1922, James Dole, the president of Hawaiian Pineapple Company later the Dole Food Company, bought the entire island of Lānai, and developed a large portion of it into the world's largest pineapple plantation. |
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