What was the original name of Hawaii?
Correct answer: Sandwich Islands
CoachBlank
Maybe the original European or English name, but most definitely not THE original name for the islands. I'm sure the people who were living there had a name that they were already using!
Player #134726817
CoachBlank, precisely. the question should read what was the first European name
Callie Rose
Idaho has a county in the southwest corner, by Oregon, named Owyhee, the history is they wanted to name it Hawaii, but sounded it out as Owyhee. It has beautiful rhyolite canyons, where they used to find thundereggs.
flr
And Captain Cook was killed there by the natives.
BlueEyedAlien
I sincerely doubt that the native Hawaiians ever called home the Sandwich Islands before the arrival of Cook. So that was not the “original” name.
PhabPhour
Player #25874027, Yes but it wasn’t in the question!
Player #25874027
CoachBlank,
If you’d bothered to read the answer you would see it made reference to the “native name of the islands Owhyhee”.