A white obelisk marks the area where British explorer James Cook was killed in 1779 after relations with Hawaiians deteriorated. The monument is not directly reachable by road; visitors arrive by a strenuous trail or lawful water access and should understand the surrounding bay as a significant Hawaiian cultural landscape.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: dlnr.hawaii.gov/dsp/parks/hawaii/kealakekua-bay-state-historical-park/