After more than two hours of skimming over impossibly blue waves, about 17 miles off the Hawaiian island of Kauai, the time has finally arrived. Our boat is closing in on Niihau, the Forbidden ...

There is no real mystery in getting to the island. Niihau Helicopters has been offering half-day trips since 1987. It’s just that few people seem to know about them. I was among them.

Situated in the Hawaiian archipelago to the southwest of Kauai, Niihau Island calls with an aura of mystery and exclusivity that sets it apart from other destinations in the Pacific. Niihau ...

Makaweli Meat. Co. is also owned by the family with other major landholdings on the Garden Island of Kauai. “Give or take, there are about 100 Hawaiian people who live on Niihau,” says Fuller.

When an unattended death occurred on Niihau, the island’s owners called Kauai police ... it provides the same services afforded all other people on Kauai. The phrase, "fair is fair," doesn ...

Niihau Helicopters (owned by the island’s owners) has been offering half-day trips since 1987. It’s just that few people seem to know about the tours, the only way to visit the private island.

The island is still owned today by Sinclair’s descendants. Terrill James Kane Alii Williams, a lineal descendant of people who lived on Niihau, told SFGATE that this may be why information about ...

Remains of the Zero that crashed on Hawaii’s Niihau island, on display at the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum. Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Flying in the second wave of the attack, he had ...

I’m not referring to Niihau, the invite-only “forbidden ... figures were possibly made by Marquesans (the people of the Marquesas Islands in the south Pacific), Kikiloi used radiocarbon ...