Nomenclature Library

Library of names given by the Nomenclature Hui, a subcommittee of the Papahānaumokuākea Native Hawaiian Cultural Working Group

Kalaukapu

Kalaukapu, named for Aunty Laura Kalaukapu Thompson. Photo: Cameron Ogden-Fung, NOAA.

I‘a

Marine species

Pokipoki o Hanakaʻieʻie

ʻIhikūholu

Lāʻau

Plant species

Ahuʻawakua

Bryan's Flatsedge

Manu

Winged species

Hinaokū

Blue-gray noddy, Necker Island tern

Kaʻupuʻākala

Short-tailed albatross

Koloa Pōhaka

Laysan duck, Laysan teal

Makalena

Short-tailed albatross

Manuohina

Blue-gray noddy, Necker Island tern

Nunulu

Palihoa

Ulūlu

Nihoa Miller bird

Ulūlu Niau

Nihoa Millerbird

ʻAkihikeʻehiʻale

Tristram’s storm-petrel

ʻAoʻū

Christmas shearwater

‘Ekupu‘u

‘Ainohu Kauō, Laysan finch

Wahi Pana

Place names

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