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Rising above the eastern edge of Waikiki, Diamond Head is among the most recognisable natural landmarks in the Pacific, a broad volcanic tuff cone whose saw-toothed rim forms the backdrop to countless images of Honolulu. Known in Hawaiian as LÄ“Ê»ahi, often translated as "brow of the tuna" for its profile, the crater was formed in a single explosive eruption roughly 300,000 years ago. Its English name came later, from nineteenth-century British sailors who mistook glittering calcite crystals on ...