It’s the Forbidden Island. A remote landmass where an ancient dialect of Hawaiian is spoken fluently by its native residents. Shrouded in mystery and intrigue, Niihau is situated 17 miles off ...

Niihau, Hawaii, is home to many monk seals, including this curious one luxuriating in a tide pool. As for the human residents of the island, which has been privately owned since 1864, there are ...

Just 17 miles from the coastline of Kauai, Hawaii boasts a historic restricted area: the 70-square-mile island of Niihau, also known as the “Forbidden Island.” Niihau, Hawaii’s “Forbidden ...

The bulk of Niihau is restricted to its 70 full-time residents and their families or to those who received a coveted invitation from the family who has owned the 69-square-mile island since 1864.

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 ...

Nonresident fishermen have depleted the fish supply that Niihau residents depend on to survive, Bruce Robinson, the island's owner, said Wednesday.

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.

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’s first people were the ancestors of seafaring Polynesians who arrived in double-hulled sailing canoes. They were ruled by Hawaiian nobility, and the island’s coveted shells are named ...

Off Kauai, Niihau is a mostly deserted island that’s been owned by the Sinclair/Robinson family since 1864. Nicknamed the “Forbidden Island,” it indeed remains mostly closed to outsiders.

Lester Beauclerk Robinson (1901-1969) was the great-grandson of Eliza McHutcheson Sinclair, who’d purchased the island of Niihau from Kamehameha V in the names of her two sons, Francis and James ...