Kalaupapa Peninsula sits on Molokai’s northern coast, cut off from the world by towering sea cliffs and rough waters. From ...

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Fearful that leprosy would spread throughout the archipelago, the king banishes the sick to the island of Molokai. In 1873, the Belgian Catholic missionary Damien de Veuster arrives on the island ...