[[File:Ford Island aerial photo RIMPAC 1986.JPEG|right|thumb|300px|Meregrotahȳð mid Fordīege onmiddan]]
'''Meregrotahȳð''', se is on AmericawarumAmericaƿarum geheten ''Pearl Harbor'', is hæfn in healfgecysode byht in [[Oahu]] þære īege, se is [[Hawaii|Haƿaii]]s mǣste īegland. Be westenƿesten [[Honolulu]] is sēo hȳð.
Se mǣsta dæl þæs hæfnes and his ymbesettenda landa is dēopwæterdēopƿæter scipheres wīcƿīc þæs [[Geāneda Rīca Sciphere]]s. Ēac is þes stede se hēafodstōl þæs [[Geānedan Rīca Sericus Garsecges Flēot]]es.
Se Americanisca lēodweardlēodƿeard first obtained exclusive use of the inlet and the right to maintain a repair and coaling station for scipum hēr in 1887,<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Funk and Wagnalls|title=Pearl Harbor|journal=Funk and Wagnalls new world encyclopedia|date=2014|pages=1}}</ref> þan wæsƿæs HawaiiHaƿaii sundorrīce mid his [[Hawaii Cyning|agena cyning]].
Se [[Onrǣs on Meregrotanhȳðe]] be [[Iapan]]e þæm Rīce on 7. Gēolmōnaþ in 1941 wæsƿæs se andweorcandƿeorc þærof underfang þā [[Geānedan Rīcu American]] hiera dæl in þā [[Ōðru Woruldgūþ|Ōðru Ƿoruldgūþ]]e.<ref>{{cite video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrVI6ENDL8Y |title=FDR Pearl Harbor Speech |date=December 8, 1941 | accessdate=2011-02-05 |quote=December 7th, 1941, a day that will live in infamy.}}</ref><ref name = nrhpinv>{{Cite web | last = Apple | first = Russell A. |author2=Benjamin Levy | title = Pearl Harbor | work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | publisher = National Park Service | date = February 8, 1974 | url = http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/66000940.pdf | format = pdf | accessdate = 25 May 2012}}</ref><ref name = nrhpphotos>{{Cite web | title = Pearl Harbor | work = Photographs | publisher = National Park Service | url = http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/66000940.pdf| format = pdf | accessdate = 25 May 2012}}</ref>
