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Ford Island () is an islet in the center of Pearl Harbor, Oahu, in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It has been known as Rabbit Island, Marín's Island, and Little Goats Island, and its native Hawaiian name is ''Mokuumeume''. The island had an area of when it was surveyed in 1825, which was increased during the 1930s to with fill dredged out of Pearl Harbor by the United States Navy to accommodate battleships. It was the site of an ancient Hawaiian fertility ritual, which was stopped by Christian missionaries during the 1830s. The island was given by Kamehameha I to Spanish deserter Francisco de Paula Marín, and later returned to the monarchy. After the island was bought at auction by James Isaac Dowsett and sold to Caroline Jackson, it became the property of Dr. Seth Porter Ford by marriage and was renamed Ford Island. After Ford's death, his son sold the island to the John Papa Īī estate and it was converted into a sugarcane plantation. In 1916, part of Ford Island was sold to the U.S. Army for use by an aviation division in Hawaii, and by 1939 it was taken over by the U.S. Navy as a station for battleship and submarine maintenance. From the 1910s to the 1940s, the island continued to grow as a strategic center of operations for the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Ocean. Ford Island was at the center of the attack on Pearl Harbor and on the U.S. Pacific Fleet by the Japanese fleet on December 7, 1941. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation has listed the island as one of the United States' most-endangered historic sites.〔 By the late 1990s, hundreds of millions of dollars had been invested in real estate development and infrastructure, including a new bridge. Ford Island continues to serve an active role in the Pacific, hosting military functions at the Pacific Warfighting Center and civilian functions at NOAA's Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. The island has been featured in films such as ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' and ''Pearl Harbor'' and receives tourists from the U.S. and abroad at the USS ''Arizona'' memorial and the USS ''Missouri'' museum. ==Geography== Ford Island is located inside Pearl Harbor, South Oahu of the Hawaiian Islands. Pearl Harbor is divided into three large bodies of water called the West Loch, Middle Loch and East Loch with Ford Island in the center of the East Loch. It is long and wide, and was enlarged from between 1930 and 1940 with land fill dredged from the surrounding harbor.〔 The land is a relatively flat plain but rises from above mean water level, and slopes toward Pearl Harbor.〔 It connects to the larger island of Oahu, surrounding Pearl Harbor, via a bridge at its northern tip which crosses east to Halawa Landing. The island's soil is composed primarily of volcanic material, lagoonal deposits and coralline debris, with silty sand from the dredging.〔 Its volcanic material is Aeolian ash, weathered tuff and basalt.〔 Ford Island proper is a coral outcrop.〔 There are two smaller islets near the island: Mokunui and Mokuiki.〔Cantor 2008, p. 58.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ford Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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