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Puʻupehe Platform, or Sweetheart Rock, is a sea stack off Lānaʻi between Mānele Bay and Hulopoʻe Bay, notable both for a famous local legend and for its place in a larger Native Hawaiian cultural landscape. Tradition links it to the deaths of Pehe and her husband Makakehau, but archaeological work in 1921 found no human remains on the summit platform, only seabird bones, suggesting the stone structure was likely an altar used by bird hunters or fishermen. The surrounding coast preserves Native Hawaiian village remains, including part of Kapihaʻā, and since 1976 the rock has also marked a boundary within the Mānele-Hulopoʻe Marine Life Conservation District.
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Manele, Hawaii · United States
