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Menehune Fishpond (Alekoko)

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Massive ancient fishpond near Lihue on Kauai, with a 270-meter-long curved stone wall enclosing 200,000 m² of water. Local tradition holds that the wall was built in a single night by the Menehune — a legendary race of small, skilled stone-workers said to predate the Polynesian Hawaiians. Construction date and method remain unresolved.

21.9569°, -159.3786°

Look Closer — this site carries open questions: stones heavier than the period's tools could lift; stones fitted without mortar, almost no gap.
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