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The closest part of any other US state to Hawaii is an Alaskan island: https://www.quora.com/How-far-is-Hawaii-from-the-nearest-land-mass https://www.quora.com/
by sbierwagen 5y ago
The closest part of any other US state to Hawaii is an Alaskan island: https://www.quora.com/How-far-is-Hawaii-from-the-nearest-land-mass https://www.quora.com/How-far-is-Hawaii-from-the-nearest-lan...
>Located near the town of False Pass, the tip of an unnamed peninsula overlooking Ikatan Bay is exactly 2,259.28 miles (3,636.44 kilometers) from a part of Tunnels Beach on the island of Kauai.
So yes, thousands of miles.
- Sebb767 5y ago> So yes, thousands of miles. Or a few miles to a quite lively island. I think the OPs point was that the observatory isn't actually far away from civilization, but instead rather close to it.
- jxramos 5y agoyah, I took it as some remote distant island on the fringe of Hawaii, when I looked at where it was on the map I realized it was near civilization.