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Maui Nui, also called Greater Maui, was a prehistoric Hawaiian Island built from six shield volcanoes. At its greatest size, it was larger than the Island of Hawai‘i is today. As the volcanoes slowly settled by isostatic adjustment, the saddles between them flooded, forming four separate islands: Maui, Moloka‘i, Lna‘i and Kaho‘olawe. The sea floor between these four islands is relatively shallow. But at the outer edges of former Maui Nui, as with the edges of all Hawaiian Islands, the floor plummets to the abyssal ocean floor of the Pacific Ocean. Islands of Hawaii
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