Halemaʻumaʻu Crateris — home to Pele, goddess of fire

Halemaʻumaʻu is a pit crater within the much larger Kīlauea Caldera at the summit of Kīlauea volcano on island of Hawaiʻi. The roughly circular crater was 770 meters x 900 m before collapses that roughly doubled the size of the crater after May 3, 2018. Following the collapses of 2018, the bottom of Halemaʻumaʻu was roughly 600 m below the caldera floor.

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Halemaʻumaʻu is home to Pele, goddess of fire and volcanoes, according to the traditions of Hawaiian religion.

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Halemaʻumaʻu means "house of the ʻāmaʻu fern".[youtube]3NUiTu_VRKo[/youtube]
We traveled to Hawaii in 2012, so this crater was seen before the collapse in 2018.

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