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HiloKīlauea

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Narrated by The Chronicler Focus: The Living Volcano 49 km · about 53 min · 11 stories

Up the flank of an active volcano: Kīlauea's living eruption cycle, the 2018 Lower Puna flows that swallowed seven hundred homes, the ʻōhiʻa tree that colonizes bare lava, the nēnē goose pulled back from thirty birds, and Jaggar's observatory on the crater rim.

The stories

In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.

  1. 1
    Hilo, Hawaii

    The Path of Honoliʻi Stream

  2. 2
    Hilo, Hawaii

    The Living Volcano of Hawaii Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  3. 3
    Hilo, Hawaii

    The Living Volcano of Hawaii Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  4. 4
    Keaau, Hawaii

    The Living Volcano of Hawaii Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  5. 5
    Kurtistown, Hawaii

    The 2018 Lower Puna Eruption

  6. 6
    Kurtistown, Hawaii

    The Song of the Coquí

  7. 7
    Mountain View, Hawaii

    The Resilience of the ʻŌhiʻa

  8. 8
    Mountain View, Hawaii

    The Fern Forest Ho'olaule'a

  9. 9
    Mountain View, Hawaii

    The Rare Nene Goose

  10. 10
    Hilo, Hawaii

    The History of Volcano House

  11. 11
    Volcano, Hawaii

    The Founding of Jaggar's Observatory

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.