Discover Mauna Kea Home to the world’s largest sea mountain, from which the area derives its name, Mauna Kea is an awe-inspiring site. Often snowcapped and crowned with multinational research facilities and observatories, Mauna Kea provides visitors a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the island and the night sky from an unreal vantage point. Dominated by the dormant volcano, the Mauna Kea region of the Big Island is vast and rural. Very few people call the region around the volcano hom...