Molokai Virtual Field

Virtual field trip

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Molokai Virtual Field

Field trips are always interesting. The recent field trip I took was a virtual field trip. A virtual filed trip involves visiting a place without leaving once destination. This field trip has basically a view of the tour area through satellite imaging (Cooper & Cooper, 2001). Through the URL in the reference (Glaze & Mouginis-Mark, 1996), you will find a map, and on if you click yellow circles you will see the air photos and white circles will lead you to spots on the ground, this takes you exactly where you want to take your trip. For example, if you click on point one it will lead you to the northwest rift zone of West Molokai. Through the virtual field trip, I noticed several geographical, geological principles make the Molokai region unique. These are:

A lot of cliffs along the East Molokai northern shore

Sea cliffs that have spectacular waterfalls falling down to the sea along the Molokai’s north shore

The remnants of Molokai Island that fell into the ocean

Kauhako Crater found on Kalaupapa Peninsula

Rise of sea cliffs so high along East Molokai shore by like 1,000 meters

West Molokai volcano northwest zone

Different coastlines as I fly around Molokai’s southern shore

Coral reefs closer view near SE Molokai Kamalo area

West of Molokai main town

Examples of watercourse engraved in the volcanic rocks shown on other view of the south side East of the Molokai volcano

The strong point of this Molokai area is it has beautiful spots to explore but has a weakness of not being access by land. Though that is the issue, the pictures from the sky were superb, and I enjoyed the scenes and topography of the ground. Also, the trip advisory was so simple and easy to follow. The Molokai virtual field trip was an interesting trip. I would recommend anybody with the intent of taking a virtual field to a place with interesting geological formations to consider taking the trip to Molokai.

Reverences

Cooper, G. & Cooper, G. (2001). New virtual field trips. Englewood, Colo: Libraries Unlimited/Teacher Ideas Press.

Glaze, L. & Mouginis-Mark,P. (1996). Virtually Hawaii. http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/space/hawaii/vfts/molokai/molokai.air.photographs.html