Kalaupapa National Historical Park
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Kalawao County, also known as Kalaupapa National Historical Park, is a county and National Historical Park located in the U.S. state of Hawaii.[4] The county is on the Kalaupapa or Makanalua Peninsula, on the north coast of the island of Molokaʻi. The small peninsula of Kalaupapa is isolated from the rest of Molokaʻi by sea cliffs over a quarter-mile high—the only land access is a mule trail. The county was designated a National Historical Park by the National Park Service in 1980 to expand upon the earlier National Historic Landmark site of the Kalaupapa Leper Settlement.[5][6] Its goal is to preserve the cultural and physical settings of the two leper colonies on the island of Molokaʻi.
