Kamakahonu - View this location on map Situated at Kailua, Kona, on Hawaii Island, this is where Kamehameha I, the unifier of the Hawaiian Islands, lived out the last years of his life and instituted some of the most constructive measures of his reign (1810-1819). The residential compound includes the Ahuena Heiau (personal temple) of the King. It was here, too, within a year of the Kamehameha's death, that the first missionaries to the Islands arrived in 1820. Northwest edge Kailua Bay, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii Historical

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