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County: Kauai
Site_Name: Keaalii Heiau.
Island: Kauai
Traditional_District: Others
District: Waimea
Ahupuaa: Waimea, Waimea
Site_Function: Heiau
Complex: No
Tax_Map_Key: 1-6-
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BM_site_number: 50-Ka-C03-020
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Surveyor: Bennett
Survey_Type: Recon. survey
Survey_Date: 1931
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SiteType: Keaalii Heiau, at Kealii on the W side of the Waimea River, behind the first Japanese temple. Reported to be heiau described by Captain Cook. Rumor cannot be substantiated. Thrum, "Fragments of foundation show it to have been about 60 feet square". Other fragments, however, indicate >150 feet long and 100 feet wide.
Bibliography: W.C.Bennett, Arch. of Kauai, 1931, Site 23, p. 104