(Kiʻei)
| Feature: | Shore area |
| Comments: | Shore area near Makaakini Point. Identified as Kie on the circa-1880s Hawaiian Government Survey map of Kaupo. An article in the newspaper Ka Nupepa Kuokoa on March 7, 1863, describes the origin of the place name: "Onea Kaupo ua ka ka ai i ka lua, pela iho la ka olelo a kekahi mano, i kona wa i kiei mai ai ua kapa ia ka inoa o ia wahi o Kiei a hiki i keia la, mamuli o ke kiei ana a i ka mano." (Kaupo is desolate from all the food tossed in the pit, said a shark as he peered on. The name of the place is called Kiei to this day because of the peering of the shark.) Archaeologist Winslow Walker wrote of Kiei following a survey of Kaupo in 1929: "Kiei on the shore is a rocky beach with two canoe-sheds and a well of brackish water." |
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