Mauna Loa (English: Long Mountain) is one of five volcanoes that form the Pacific island of Hawaii, or Big Island.

The five volcanoes on the island of Hawaii are: (1) Kohala, extinct; (2) Mauna Kea, dormant; (3) Haalalai, dormant; (4) Mauna Loa, active and (5) Kilauea, active.

The largest sub-aerial volcano in both mass and volume, Mauna Loa has historically been considered the largest volcano on Earth, (dwarfed only by Tamu Massif a submarine shield volcano). It is an active shield volcano with relatively gentle slopes, with a volume estimated at 18,000 cubic miles although its peak is about 125 feet (38 m) lower than that of its neighbor, Mauna Kea. Lava eruptions from Mauna Loa are silica-poor and very fluid, and they tend to be non-explosive.

Hawaii is the largest island in the United States, located in the state of Hawaii. It is the southeasternmost of the Hawaiian Islands, a chain of volcanic islands in the North Pacific Ocean. With an area of 4,028 square miles, it has sixty-three percent of the landmass of the entire Hawaiian archipelago. However, Hawaii has only thirteen percent of the population in the Hawaiian islands.

The island of Hawaii, or the Big Island, is the third largest island in Polynesia, smaller only to the two main islands of New Zealand. Jurisdictionally, the entire island is coextensive with Hawaii County.

The population, as of the 2020 Census, is 200,629. The largest city and also the county seat is Hilo.

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Early in the Journey of Joktan, after traveling across most of Asia, but long before arriving at the Bering Sea land bridge, Joktan′s first born son, Almodad departed company from his father and began his own separate journey. When the main contingent of Joktan′s family departed to the northeast, Almodad left that campsite to travel eastward to the coast of eastern Asia. Some of his sons soon after departed in a northward direction along the mainland coastal waters of the Sea of Japan. However, Almodan and most of his family continue south towards the coastal areas of southeast Asia.

Through the decades and centuries that would follow, many of the descendants of Almodad′s sons became seafarers and would sail the out into the China Sea, the Philippine Sea and even as far as the Pacific to explore and populate the Islands, including the Hawaiian Islands.

As the tribes of Almodad continues to grow and explore, in time, his descendants settled the lands of southeast Asia all the way to Malaysia and continue across to the islands of the South Pacific including Sumatra, Java, Indoneasia, Phillippines, Papua, New Guinea Austrailia, New Zealand and many other islands of the South Pacific.