But the leisurely pace is just fine, because you want to take it slow descending the 1,700 feet into Hawaii's past on the Kalaupapa Peninsula. Molokai's remote north shore was where Hawaiians with ...

On the north side of Molokaʻi — the least-visited Hawaiian Island — a piece of land called the Kalaupapa Peninsula juts out from the rest of the island. Lay eyes on it for the first time ...

Some of that anonymity can be linked to Kalaupapa’s isolated geography, but the peninsula is also still a functioning leprosy settlement, home to about a dozen patients suffering from Hansen’s ...

Apr. 18—John Arruda was sent to the isolated Kalaupapa Peninsula in 1945 following his Hansen's disease diagnosis and Friday celebrated his 100th birthday in the Kalaupapa Settlement ...

KALAUPAPA, Hawai‘i — Kalaupapa beckoned to Kyong Son Toyofuku. She had long prayed to visit the hard-to-reach Hawaiian peninsula, trapped by its deep-green, sheer sea cliffs and rugged ...

The Kalaupapa peninsula lies in a remote area of Molokai island in Hawaii, at the base of a 2,000-foot sea cliff wall and surrounded by ocean on three sides. The massive bluffs cut off Kalaupapa ...