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a military lookout for enemy canoes. Besides the star mounds, lepita pottery has been discovered in ʻAoa. Some estimates date some of the potshards discovered here to 2000 BCE, while most of the scientific community dates them to 500 BCE. The
Department of Tourism operated a camp site here complete with showers and barbecue facilities. The campsite was however closed as of 1994.
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