This week’s Hawaii Five-O is the first episode to be filmed on Hawaii Island. In the episode, it’s Christmas, and the team is off to the Big Island to solve a cowboy’s murder. ADVERTISING This week’s Hawaii Five-O is the
This week’s Hawaii Five-O is the first episode to be filmed on Hawaii Island. In the episode, it’s Christmas, and the team is off to the Big Island to solve a cowboy’s murder.
Five-O was shot at two of the island’s most unique locations, according to the Hawaii Island Film Office. One day was on the slopes of Mauna Loa, at a University of Hawaii site called HI-SEAS, or Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation.
The location is 8,200 feet above sea level and looks otherworldly. HI-SEAS is funded by NASA to conduct studies in preparation for an extended mission to Mars.
The second day of shooting was at a home in remote Kalapana Gardens. About 120 houses there were wiped out by lava flows in the early 1990s and the area was covered in about 50 feet of lava.
In more recent years, about 40 houses popped up, scattered over the lava. Kalapana Gardens residents were excited to host such a big production in their neighborhood, Big Island Film Commissioner T. Ilihia Gionson said.
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