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| • | Lāie is a community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in the Koolauloa District on the Island of Oahu, City & County of Honolulu. In Hawaiian, lāie means "ie leaf" (ie is a climbing pandanus: Freycinetia arborea). Lāie is the largest town in the district with a total population of 4,585 according to the 2000 Census.
Lāie is one of the largest communities of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the site of the Lāie Hawaii Temple, the fifth oldest Mormon temple in the world. Brigham Young University of Hawaii is located in Lāie. The university's Polynesian Cultural Center, the state's largest living museum, draws millions of visitors annually and is considered the number one tourist destination in the islands.
Though small, Lāie has had a profound impact on Hawaiian culture. Feasts on the beach in the 1940s inspired the "Hukilau Song," made famous by Arthur Godfrey, and the "Shaka sign" now commonly associated with Hawaii was born in Lāie, in honor of Hamana Kalili, a respected local leader who had lost the index, middle and ring fingers of his right hand. In a twist of fate, Kalili provided the fishing nets used in the early hukilau gatherings, including the one which led to the song. Those gatherings led to the founding of the Polynesian Cultural Center in 1963.
The coastline is marked by a prominent lithified dune jutting out into the ocean as Lāie Point (also known as Laniloa Point, the elevated land formation with Lāie Pt. at its tip). Two other lithified dunes (Kukuihoolua and Mokuālai) lie just offshore of the point as scenic islets. Lāie Beach Park, popularly known as Pounders Beach for the offshore surf site, is just south of the town. Lāie Beach, also known as Hukilau Beach, is located at the north end of town, at the mouth of Kahawainui Stream.
The U.S. postal code for Lāie is 96762.
Source: [wikipedia: laie, hawaii]
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