:Waialae Country Club

In the 2000 U.S. census, the U.S. Census Bureau defined the K-8 campus as being in the urban Honolulu census-designated place.{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk2000/st15_Hawaii/Place/1517000_Honolulu/CBP1517000_000.pdf|title=CENSUS 2000 BLOCK MAP: HONOLULU CDP|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|accessdate=2020-10-10}} - The area is on [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk2000/st15_Hawaii/Place/1517000_Honolulu/CBP1517000_017.pdf 17] and [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk2000/st15_Hawaii/Place/1517000_Honolulu/CBP1517000_018.pdf 18]. For the 2010 U.S. census, the bureau created a new census-designated place, East Honolulu.{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st15_hi/place/p1506290_east_honolulu/DC10BLK_P1506290_000.pdf|title=2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP (INDEX): East Honolulu CDP, HI|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|accessdate=2020-10-10}} - Pages [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st15_hi/place/p1506290_east_honolulu/DC10BLK_P1506290_001.pdf 1] and [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st15_hi/place/p1506290_east_honolulu/DC10BLK_P1506290_002.pdf 2]{{cite web|url=https://www.kalanihighschool.org/|title=Home|publisher=Kalani High School|accessdate=2020-10-10|quote=4680 Kalanianaole Highway Honolulu, Hawaii 96821}}

Wai'alae is a Hawaiian word for spring water of the mud hen, which comes from mud hen ('alae) and {{nowrap|spring water (wai).{{cite book | last = Andrews | first = Lorrin | author-link = Lorrin Andrews | year = 1922 | orig-year = 1865 | chapter = 1 | chapter-url = http://ulukau.org/elib/collect/parker/index/assoc/D0.dir/doc24.pdf | chapter-format = pdf | editor-last1 = Parker | editor-first1 = Henry Hodges | editor-last2 = Bishop Museum | editor-last3 = Emerson | editor-first3 = J. S. | editor-last4 = Mahaulu | editor-first4 = Stephen |display-editors=etal | title = A Dictionary of the Hawai'ian Language (see alae) | url = http://ulukau.org/elib/cgi-bin/library?e=d-0parker-000Sec--11haw-50-20-frameset-book--1-010escapewin&a=d&p2=book | location = Honolulu, Hawai'i | publisher = The Board of Commissioners of Public Archives of the Territory of Hawai'i | page = 47 | accessdate = October 27, 2016}}{{cite book | last = Andrews | first = Lorrin | year = 1922 | orig-year = 1865 | chapter = 12 | chapter-url = http://ulukau.org/elib/collect/parker/index/assoc/D0.dir/doc623.pdf | chapter-format = pdf | editor-last1 = Parker | editor-first1 = Henry Hodges | editor-last2 = Bishop Museum | editor-last3 = Emerson | editor-first3 = J. S. | editor-last4 = Mahaulu | editor-first4 = Stephen |display-editors=etal | title = A Dictionary of the Hawai'ian Language (see wai) | url = http://ulukau.org/elib/cgi-bin/library?e=d-0parker-000Sec--11haw-50-20-frameset-book--1-010escapewin&a=d&p2=book | location = Honolulu, Hawai'i | publisher = The Board of Commissioners of Public Archives of the Territory of Hawai'i | page = 612 | accessdate = October 27, 2016}}{{cite book | last = Andrews | first = Lorrin | year = 1922 | orig-year = 1865 | chapter = 13 | chapter-url = http://ulukau.org/elib/collect/parker/index/assoc/D0.dir/doc640.pdf | chapter-format = pdf | editor-last1 = Parker | editor-first1 = Henry Hodges | editor-last2 = Bishop Museum | editor-last3 = Emerson | editor-first3 = J. S. | editor-last4 = Mahaulu | editor-first4 = Stephen |display-editors=etal | title = A Dictionary of the Hawai'ian Language (see Waialae) | url = http://ulukau.org/elib/cgi-bin/library?e=d-0parker-000Sec--11haw-50-20-frameset-book--1-010escapewin&a=d&p2=book | location = Honolulu, Hawai'i | publisher = The Board of Commissioners of Public Archives of the Territory of Hawai'i | page = 672 | accessdate = October 27, 2016}}{{cite web | last = Parker | first = Henry H. | title = Ulukau, A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language: (see Waialae) | url = http://ulukau.org/elib/cgi-bin/library?e=d-0parker-000Sec--11haw-50-20-frameset-book--1-010escapewin&a=d&d=D0.15.2&toc=0 | publisher = ulukau.org | accessdate = October 27, 2016}}{{cite web | title = Hawaiian Dictionaries: Wai-'alae, Wai'alae, Waialae | url = http://wehewehe.org/gsdl2.85/cgi-bin/hdict?c=hdict&a=q&r=1&hs=1&q=waialae&j=p0&hdid=0&hdds=0&l=en&w=utf-8&t=1 | accessdate = October 27, 2016}}{{cite web | title = Mud Hen Water: The Mo’olelo of mud hen water | url = http://www.mudhenwater.com/ | publisher = Mud Hen Water Wai'alae Restaurant | accessdate = October 27, 2016}}{{cite web | title = 'Aina It Sweet: The best chef you've never heard of is in Honolulu | url = https://www.tastingtable.com/travel/national/ed-kenney-mud-hen-water-kaimuki-restaurant-honolulu-hawaii-shishito-pepper-romesco-recipe | work = Tasting Table | accessdate = October 27, 2016}}}}

In the 1830s and 1840s, the location of the artesian spring for the spring water (or wai) in Wai'alae was a closely guarded secret known only by an elderly couple. King Kamehameha III drank from this spring while visiting. During the twentieth century, the location of the spring became unknown.{{cite book | last = Sigall | first = Bob | title = The Companies We Keep}}{{cite web | last = Sigall | first = Bob | title = The Springs of Waialae | url = http://www.listsothebysrealty.com/blog/2016/08/the-springs-of-waialae/ | publisher = Sotheby's | date = August 21, 2016 | accessdate = October 28, 2016}}

The wetlands in the Hawaiian Islands are a winter habitat for the American coot which is also known as "mud hen".{{cite book|last=Hoyo|first=Josep del|title=Handbook of the Birds of the World|year=1996|publisher=Lynx Edicions|isbn=8487334202|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofbirdso0001unse}} The Hawaiian mud hen (or 'alae), which is referred to in Wai'alae, is the endemic Gallinula sandvicensis and is a close relative of the coot.{{lang|la|Gallinula}} is the diminutive of {{lang|la|gallīna}} ("hen"). It is anglicized gallinule in older zoological texts. {{OED|gallinule}} Mud hens, moorhens, marsh hens, and swamp hens are closely related.

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• {{Official website|http://www.waialaecc.com/}}
• [http://golfclubrentals.blogspot.com/2007/12/sony-golf-open-honolulu-hawaii.html/ Club History]

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