The island’s school is Hawaii's only 100% solar-powered school, with a 10.4-kilowatt photovoltaic power system with battery storage, but Niihau still functions without internet access.

Niihau, Hawaii, has been a privately owned island since 1864. It has an area of 72 square miles and is accessible via helicopter from the island of Kauai.

After more than two hours of skimming over impossibly blue waves, about 17 miles off the Hawaiian island of Kauai, the time has finally arrived. Our boat is closing in on Niihau, the Forbidden ...

Travel Get a glimpse of Niihau, Hawaii’s ‘Forbidden Island’ Originally published May 15, 2010 at 7:00 pm Updated May 15, 2010 at 9:01 pm ...

Niihau is the 'Forbidden Island' of Hawaii, privately owned by the same family since 1864, when Elizabeth Sinclair purchased it from King Kamehameha V for $10,000.

Niihau is everything Oahu, Maui, the Big Island, even Kauai, are not. It has 130 residents, give or take, and they live in the town of Puuwai.

Life Travel A look at Hawaii’s truly remote islands, Niihau and Kaho‘olawe Originally published March 29, 2015 at 6:31 am Updated May 14, 2015 at 4:55 pm ...

Niihau’s reputation is well deserved. For nearly a century and a half, the privately owned, 70-square-mile island, located 17 miles southwest of Kauai, has been off limits to outsiders, earning ...

So when Susan Tanzman, the owner of Martin’s Travel & Tours in L.A. and a Hawaii specialist who knew of my love affair with the 50th state, called one day to ask whether I wanted to go to Niihau ...

Niihau, also known as the Forbidden Isle, is a beautiful small island in Hawaii spread across 180 sq km. The island is off-limits to outsiders and only the Robinson family, their relatives ...