Lō'ihi Seamount

Lō'ihi Seamount, also known as Loihi or Lōihi,In the Hawaiian language, the sounds are shown with a kahakō (macron) and an ʻokina"Lōihi". is an submarine volcano (seamount) in the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain.   It lies in the Pacific Ocean south of the island of Hawaii. 

Lōihi is an active volcano.Hawaii Center for Volcanology (HCV),   "Active Volcanoes Summary"; retrieved 2012-6-16.

Hawaiian name
In 1995, the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) changed a longtime policy and is now using the Hawaiian okina and kahakō in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, Twenty-third Session Vienna, "Working Paper No. 82, "U.S Board on Geographic Names: Collection and Dissemination of Indigenous Names," p. 3; excerpt, "An example of this has been the addition of the glottal stop (okina) and macron (kahako) to placenames of Hawaiian origin, which prior to 1995 had always been omitted. The BGN (Board on Geographic Names) staff, under the direction and guidance of the Hawaii State Geographic Names Authority, has been restoring systemically these marks to each Hawaiian name listed in GNIS (Geographic Names Information System)"; retrieved 2012-6-16.  After 1995, Loihi seamount was officially identified as Lōʻihi.

Seamount
Lōihi seamount is 32 miles from the peak of Mauna Loa. This small volcano is in on the slopes of the larger and older one. Lōihi Seamount is over 3,000 meters above the sea floor. It is as tall as the volcano Mount St Helens was before it erupted. 

In 2012, the top of this volcano was determined to be one kilometer below the sea.

Island
Lōihi is predicted to grow until it is an island, thousands of years from now.

 References 

 Related pages 
 List of volcanoes
 Dormant volcano
 Extinct volcano

Category:Seamounts
Category:Pacific Ocean
Category:Volcanoes of Oceania