Aiea is a town and census-designated place (CDP) located in Honolulu County, Hawaii. As of the 2000
Census,
the CDP had a total population of 9,019.
The people of Aiea pronounce it "I-ay-uh."
Some residents of Aiea claim that their town is the only town in the world spelled with only vowels. This
claim
may or may not be valid, depending on whether or not one regards the okina to be part of the name "Aiea"
or
not. Because the okina is considered a consonant in the Hawaiian language, this claim is technically
incorrect.
However, when people outside of Hawaii speak of Aiea, they usually don't include the okina (for example,
the
title of this article does not include an okina). In this context, claims that Aiea is the only town in the world
spelled with only vowels are valid. However there is one other town in the world spelled with only vowels
and
that would be Ea, Spain, and also a village, forest and valley in Scotland called Ae.
Geography
Aiea is located at 21°23'9" North, 157°55'51" West (21.385900, -157.930927)GR1. According to the United
States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.5 km sq. (1.8 mi sq.). 4.3 km sq. (1.6 mi sq.) of it is
land and 0.3 km sq.
(0.1 mi sq.) of it is water. The total area is 5.71% water. Although Aiea as a census district may be only the
small
4.5 km sq. noted above, most residents, when describing "Aiea," are referring to most of the northern shore
of
East Loch of Pearl Harbor to Aiea Bay, including the associated uplands rising to the north into the Koolau
Mountains.
Kamehameha Highway (State Rte. 90) divides most of Aiea from the shore of Pearl Harbor (mostly US
government property), and the parallel major thoroughfare, interstate freeway H-1, further cuts the town's
commercial district into two distinct areas. These east-west routes (and other streets) connect Aiea to
Pearl City immediately adjacent on the west and the Halawa adjacent on the east. The residential area
known as Aiea Heights extends up the ridgeline above the town.
History
Aiea was originally the name of an ahupuaa, or Hawaiian land division. It stretched from Aiea Bay (part of
Pearl Harbor) into the mountains to the north. At the end of the 19th century, a sugar cane plantation was
opened in the district by the Honolulu Plantation Company.
As Aiea has several miles of shoreline on Pearl Harbor, the focus of the 7 December 1941 attack by the
Japanese on military installations there greatly impacted the town. For example, one damaged ship, the
USS Vestal, beached at Aiea Bay to prevent sinking. Many photographers photographed the battle from
the hills in Aiea.
After World War II the plantation shut down and the mill was converted into a sugar refinery. Meanwhile,
developers started extending the town into the surrounding former sugar cane fields. In the years since
then,
Aiea has grown into an important suburb of Honolulu. The town's sugar history came to a close in 1996,
when C&H Sugar closed the refinery. Then in 1998, the 99-year old sugar mill was torn down by the
owners,
amid protests from town residents and the County government.
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