10/9/2023 0 Comments 100 pics a to z movies #10![]() So Murdoch bought Dole and he had his island. Around 1985, zillionaire Rupert Murdoch decided he wanted the place for himself, but was told, no, it belonged to Dole, and they weren’t selling. ![]() Dole “bought” the island in the early 1900s and transformed it into the world’s largest pineapple plantation. ![]() Lana’i, just a stone’s throw across the Auau channel from Maui, is so small that Captain Cook missed it during his fatal recon of the Pacific, circa 1780. I didn’t know Lana’i from Tallahassee, but someone in the office had honeymooned there and related the basics. The job sounded agreeable: film the Cliff Diving World Championships in Lana’i, Hawaii, for a network sports show. This article appeared in Rock and Ice issue 122 (October 2003).
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