Hawaiian Islands Map

Two maps of Hawaiʻi: the full 1,500-mile archipelago and the eight main Hawaiian Islands.

I created this map of the entire Hawaiian Islands archipelago using Adobe Fresco and physical watercolor and Copic pens. This island chain stretches all the way from Hawaiʻi Island to Kure Atoll and includes not just the main islands, but the tiny atolls, shoals, rocks, and remote fragments scattered across the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Maps that depict all the minor Hawaiian Islands simply do not exist online, and I wanted to create a map that changed that. Still, that land geography is so tiny compared to the main islands that my depiction of them is actually the depths around them.

Hand-drawn watercolor map of the full Hawaiian Islands archipelago, from Kure Atoll and Midway Atoll through the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, and Hawaii Island.

8 Major Hawaiian Islands Map

My second map, the more classic view of the Hawaiian Islands, focuses on the eight main Hawaiian Islands in greater detail. The map includes Hawaiʻi Island, Maui, Kahoʻolawe, Lānaʻi, Molokaʻi, Oʻahu, Kauaʻi, and Niʻihau, and was created with Adobe Fresco and physical watercolor and Copic pens.

Hawaiian Islands Map