Waialeale
Forming a large part of the northwestern Hawaiian island of
Kauai.
As the stamp below portrays, it is one of the continuously
wettest places on Earth.
The net result is a heavily eroded topography.
As this amusing link points out.
Long extinct, though Macdonald's map indicates eruptions into
the Pleistocene.
The following stamp was issued May 27th, 2006.
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