Island that may have an apostrophe in its name

Usage examples of oahu.

Muscular and darkly tanned, Makimo sat atop a steel lifeguard tower as his eyes swept the water beyond the beach at Hanauma Bay, a wondrous, protected near-circle of everchanging blue and green sea off the island of Oahu.

Unknown to Pollard, only a few weeks earlier, on September 29, the Nantucket whaleships Equator and Balaena stopped at the Hawaiian island of Oahu for the first time.

He’d picked the one on Oahu, mostly because he’d been recalling youthful days—his first youth—sailing a knockabout around among the Islands and beachcombing on them with a delightful young woman.

Jane could hardly wait to get back to her place, open up the novel, and be transported from Oahu to a larger, cooler, foggier isle.

Air rescue at Hickam Field was alerted, and Naval and Coast Guard ships set out from Oahu.

They disappointed the guy by asking him for the shortest ride available on Oahu, which was the half-mile hop around the perimeter road to the Hickam Air Force Base entrance.

I've also entered you in the Pipeline Masters, a world class surfing contest on the north shore of Oahu on Dec.

They could see from Makapuu Point to the northernmost tip of Oahu: Kahuku Point.

Tim had grown up on Lanipo Street* in Kailua on the other side of the island of Oahu from Honolulu.

She had come to Kailua on the eastern coast of Oahu by a circuitous route, just as he had.

When Chris and Dave Story flew together, they could look down at their hometown of Kailua on the windward side of Oahu.

Already the first loops of the tentacles have been swept about Kauai and Maui and Oahu.

This latter contingent included the 3rd Marine Division based on Okinawa, and the Army's 25th Light Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks on Oahu.

He remembered the first such smile, on Sunset Beach, Oahu, she with a surfboard and a skimpy swimsuit.

Little Marlene, a former British torpedo boat converted to a private yacht, left the port of Honolulu and set a course northwest of the island of Oahu for the express purpose of filming a lifeboat scene for a movie under the direction of Herbert Verhusson, internationally recognized film producer and registered owner of the ship.