This is a map of the Hawaiian Islands today. They didn't always look like this. 4.6 million years ago there was only one island in this group. As the Pacific plate moved slowly northwesterly it produced the Hawaiian Islands, one at a time. Today the big island of Hawaii sits over the same hot spot that produced the other islands.
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