Kapau-a-Nuʻakea

Kapau-a-Nuʻakea, whose name means “Kapau child of Nuʻakea,” was in Hawaiian genealogies a ruling chiefess of Molokaʻi. She was the only recorded child of High Chief Keʻoloʻewa and his Oʻahu-born wife Nuʻakea.

Kapau succeeded her father as the island's aliʻi nui, at a time when a woman could rule Molokaʻi in her own right. Her husband was Lanileo, their daughter Kamauliwahine succeeded her, and her granddaughter Hualani married the Hawaiʻi Island chief Kanipahu, who ruled until c. 1245.