A name restored
This submarine volcano was called Lōʻihi — the long one — from its survey in the 1950s. In 2021 the Hawaiʻi Board on Geographic Names restored Kamaʻehuakanaloa, a traditional name meaning the reddish child of Kanaloa, god of the deep ocean.
The renaming is part of a broader restoration of Hawaiian place names across the state, of which the return of Kaʻōhao for Lanikai is another example.
The next island
It sits about twenty-two miles southeast of Hawaiʻi Island and rises to roughly 3,200 feet below the surface. It is active, and on current rates it will break the surface somewhere between ten thousand and a hundred thousand years from now.
The Hawaiian chain runs oldest in the northwest to youngest in the southeast, which is the same direction the Pele stories describe her travelling.