Kilauea is the home of Pele, the Hawaiian volcano goddess. Hawaiian chants and oral traditions tell in veiled form of many eruptions fomented by an angry Pele before the first European, the missionary Rev.
Kilauea is the youngest and southeastern most famous volcanoes on the Big Island of Hawaii. The latest eruption was in 3 Jan 1983. In about 1790, one of these eruptions struck a large party of Hawaiian warriors, killing at least 80 people in the deadliest historical eruption to occur in what is now the United States.

Hawaii, nicknamed BIG ISLAND because of it's 8 major famous volcanoes, is currently 4038 square miles (approx. 6 500 square km ) and grows around 42 acres every year thanks to all of mount Kilauea's eruptions.