42+ Kalaupapa Molokai Leper Colony Images. Because hansen's disease is now curable, modern medical professionals no. Kalaupapa is secluded by towering, treacherous sea cliffs from the rest of molokai—an island with zero traffic lights that takes pride in its rural seclusion—and accessing.

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Find the perfect leper colony molokai island stock photo. (redirected from kalaupapa leper settlement). I usually blog in order of when the event happened but this one is moving up to the front of the list.

Kalaupapa, which is situated on a remote peninsula near the base of some of molokai's towering sea.

The trail down the sea cliffs to the molokai leper colony was created in 1988 and is maintained by the national parks. The legislature passed a control act requiring quarantine of people with leprosy. It occupies a small 3 mile by 3 mile. Father damien brought healthier conditions to the settlement through infrastructure improvements before dying of.