There will be a base camp set up on about 215 acres of old pineapple fields controlled by a subsidiary of Pulama Lanai, billionaire Larry Ellison’s company that owns most of the island.

In 1922, pineapple tycoon James Drummond Dole purchased most of the island of Lanai for $1.1 million, an enormous sum of money for the time. He plowed the fields ... is a long-abandoned resort ...

During a summer in his youth growing up on Lanai, Kurt Matsumoto ... worked for Hawaiian Pineapple Co. and eventually became the first female field superintendent, according to an abstract from ...