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A NASA satellite view of the Hawaiian Island chain, showing the Big Island of Hawaii in the southeast extending to Kauai and tiny Ni’ihau in the northwest, with a chain of smaller islands and atolls above sea level continuing over 620 miles (1000 km) northwest
c. 28 Million BCE: The Formation of the Hawaiian Islands – A Hotspot Story

The Hawaiian Islands' formation is linked to a stationary hotspot beneath the moving Pacific plate, a theory first proposed by John Tuzo Wilson in 1963. The islands' age progression from the youngest in the southeast [...]