This crater is said to be formed about 300,000 years ago during an explosion that sent ash and fine particles in the air, according to Department of Land and Natural Resources Divisions of State ...

HONOLULU — Over 1,000 Scouts, Soldiers and volunteers gathered at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl Crater on May 25 to place flags and lei on each of the approximately ...

The Punchbowl crater is an extinct volcano historically known as Puowaina which formed some 75,000 to 100,000 years ago. In ancient times it was used for Native Hawaiian religious ceremonies.

The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific — often called Punchbowl, after the crater it resides in — opened in 1949 amid a vast need for cemetery space following the end of World War II ...