The Portland Press Herald of Maine has this article about the owner of a company called Cards Against Humanity buying a remote Maine island and calling it “Hawaii 2.” Excerpt:

Say “aloha” to Hawaii 2, Maine’s most inappropriately named island. Land there is cheap, and they’re parceling it out by the square foot.

The recent renaming of Birch Island in St. George Lake is part prank, part philanthropy, orchestrated by a Chicago company that prides itself on being irreverent and politically incorrect.

Game-maker Cards Against Humanity LLC purchased the pristine, 6-acre private island for about $200,000 on Oct. 31 from the Bedke/Fox Family Trust, according to Waldo County records.

This month, the company sent certificates to about 250,000 participants in a holiday fundraising campaign it had organized, granting each of them “exclusive” license to 1 square foot of the island. …

Welcome to “Hawaii 2.”

Google Maps

Google agreed to get the name of the island changed on Google Maps after being shown the deed of purchase.

“Company co-creator Max Temkin said he does not know whether the island’s actual, legal name has been changed to Hawaii 2,” according the Press Herald.

Why Hawaii 2?

“It’s the Maine island,” Temkin says.

Ha-ha. Oahu, of course, is Hawaii’s “main” island, given that the bulk of the state’s population lives there.