Puʻuwai, Hawaii
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Niʻihau is located about Script error: No such module "convert". west of Kauaʻi.
Puʻuwai is the westernmost community in the principal Hawaiian Islands.
In popular culture
The island features in the 1980 alternate history film Template:Film year, as the "deserted spot" where characters Senator Samuel S. Chapman and Laurel Scott are to be left on the morning of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. The film was set and filmed on board the real-life Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"..[3]
References
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- ↑ Canby, Vincent. " 'The Final Countdown' (1980) - Carrier Nimitz stars in 'Countdown'". The New York Times, 1 August 1980.
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