Kāneʻohe Bay
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KāneTemplate:Okinaohe Bay, at Template:Cvt, is the largest sheltered body of water in the main Hawaiian Islands. This reef-dominated embayment constitutes a significant scenic and recreational feature along the northeast coast of the Island of [[Oahu|OTemplate:Okinaahu]]. The largest population center on KāneTemplate:Okinaohe Bay is the town of [[Kaneohe, Hawaii|KāneTemplate:Okinaohe]].
[[File:Chinaman's Hat - Mokoliʻi (O'ahu).JPG|thumb|left|[[Mokolii|MokoliTemplate:Okinai]], a prominent island at the northern edge of KāneTemplate:Okinaohe Bay]]
The Bay is approximately Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide, with a mouth opening of about Template:Cvt wide and a maximum depth of Template:Cvt in the dredged channel. It has one of the two barrier reefs in the archipelago, the other being the Template:Cvt barrier reef of [[Molokai|MolokaTemplate:Okinai island]], and also has extensive development of shoaling coral reefs within a large lagoon. Two navigable channels cut across the northern and southern ends of the barrier reef. The deeper, northern channel, located off Kualoa Regional Park, provides entrance from the North Pacific Ocean to a ship channel dredged the length of the lagoon between 1939 and 1945. The lagoon contains extensive patch and fringing reefs and its southern end is partly enclosed by the Mokapu Peninsula. This peninsula is occupied by Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
There are five named islands or islets within KāneTemplate:Okinaohe Bay. A sand bar (Ahu o Laka), Kapapa, and Kekepa (Turtleback Rock) are all islets on the barrier reef. Two islands within KāneTemplate:Okinaohe Bay are prominent: [[Mokolii|MokoliTemplate:Okinai]] and Moku o LoTemplate:Okinae (Coconut Island), the largest of the five. MokoliTemplate:Okinai is a volcanic remnant at the very north end of the Bay, site of former Kualoa Airfield. The community on the northern side is called Waikane, or North KoTemplate:Okinaolaupoko.
Coconut Island is an isolated volcanic remnant located in the southwest part of the bay. Coconut Island is owned by the state of Hawaiʻi and home to the University of Hawaiʻi,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Pauley-Pagen Laboratory (SOEST). Coconut Island was used for the opening sequence of the television program Gilligan's Island.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref>
In August 2010, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides was filmed on the bay.<ref name=Paige>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Geologically, KāneTemplate:Okinaohe Bay forms part of a former caldera of the [[Koolau Range|KoTemplate:Okinaolau volcano]]. In prehistory, most of the volcano cataclysmically slid into the Pacific Ocean, leaving behind only the Range and the Bay. Template:Clear left
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