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Which English explorer first named the state of Hawaii the “Sandwich Islands”?

Correct answer: James Cook

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What people think about it: 27 Comments

penawareof

Figures a Cook would name it Sandwich.

Laudinum

Oh thank the heavens the name Sandwich Islands didn't stick. I love Hawai'i

GolfnBill

If not the usa another country would have taken hawaii. Usa could have let hawaii retain their roralty.

MovieManager

it was left out that the day Cook landed in Hawaii they were having a festival that was dedicates to a great white bearded god that would come in the future. so guess what they thought Cook was?

Steveo52

Player #404621, Explorer bashers...What about the natives in North and South America? Australia? Africa? The list goes on and on.....

Player #8258475

Player #163985, Do you mean the U.K.? - because the flag thats on the corner of the Hawaiian state flag is the Union Jack which belongs to The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - of which England is only one country of four which make up that union. Here endeth todays lesson!

Player #125843019

Midwest Gal, cook was English

Player #125843019

Player #8258475, it is the union flag not jack you peasant.

WDA

He later discovered both Australia and New Zealand in the late 1700s of the 18th Century, long after Great Britain lost it's 13 North American colonies that later became the United States...

Roblox_GAMER_GIRL

Interesting to know. Don’t know much about islands!!!

Wayne

Captain Cook came from my County of Yorkshire in England

Snakeman 75

It was about a year before his wife found out he had been killed, in those days news didn’t travel so fast.

Player #16071056

Steveo52, everywhere man goes he starts a downward slide into the ruin of a once paradise. smh

Player #9311083

Uninitialized, what country are you from and where do your ancestors come from?

Midwest Gal

OnerousBarbarian2025, Cook was British. I’ve been to Hawaii and have family living there. They are very proud Americans

Sonicgirl

Captain James Cook helped create a small Colony in Botony Bay before going back to Hawaii and then having his Throat Cut but a Hawaiian Chief over trying to Take food from a Village.