Place 5 of 6Hawaii, USA
Molokini Crater
The history
A crescent-shaped, half-sunken volcanic caldera off the south coast — a marine sanctuary with 150+ ft of visibility, one of Hawaii's best snorkel and dive sites.
In brief
Molokini is a crescent-shaped, partially submerged volcanic crater which forms a small, uninhabited islet located in ʻAlalākeiki Channel between the islands of Maui and Kahoʻolawe, within Maui County in Hawaii. It is the remains of one of the seven Pleistocene epoch volcanoes that formed the prehistoric Maui Nui island, during the Quaternary Period of the Cenozoic Era.
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