Why Oahu Is Sitting On The Most Valuable Land In Human History

Oahu is the leftover half of a volcano whose eastern flank slid more than a hundred miles across the Pacific seafloor, and almost everything built on top of it depends on something nobody can see. Beneath the island sits a lens of rainwater floating on seawater, held up by nothing but pressure and a lid of ancient reef rock. This countdown works through 35 verified facts about the island’s geology, water, military footprint, vanished species, manufactured beaches, and the twenty fuel tanks carved into a ridge a hundred feet above Honolulu’s drinking water. By the end, the reason this is the most valuable ground on Earth has nothing to do with the view. Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, and research.