Executive Order 1008

For the purpose of establishing suitable protection for the submarine-mine defenses of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, five and three-quarters acres of the United States Naval Reservation, Honolulu, on Kaakaukukui Reef, are hereby placed under the control of the Secretary of War for the purpose aforesaid.

The land in question is more particularly described as follows:


 * That portion of Kaakaukukui Reef located and bounded as follows: Beginning at the northeasterly end of a seawall located S. 39 degrees W. and 638.85 feet from the southwestern boundary of the Immigration Station; thence N. 51 degrees W., parallel with said boundary, 722 feet to the outer edge of a seawall; thence S. 39 degrees W., along said seawall, about 253 feet to a point of curvature; thence southerly and easterly along said seawall, constructed with a radius of about 146 feet, about 229.5 feet to a tangent point; thence S. 51 degrees E., along said seawall, about 399 feet to a corner of the wall; thence N. 62 degrees and 45 minutes E., along said seawall, about 439 feet to the point of beginning: the tract being surrounded on all sides by the United States Naval Reservation, and containing about five and three-quarters acres.

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 * January 15, 1909.