Part of Molokai's lack of crowds could be credited to with its "leprosy island" past. Patients were first exiled to Kalaupapa in the mid-1800s, when isolation was seen as the only protection from the disease. Victims of Hansen's disease still live on the Kalaupapa Peninsula, separated from the rest of Molokai by a steep 2,000-foot (610-meter) cliff. Today the peninsula is a national historic site you can visit, where the remaining residents live as wards of the government.
—West Coast Editor Steve Casimiro 

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