Captain Cook named them the Sandwich Isles.
The Sandwich Islands are now known by their original native name of Hawaii.
The Hawaiian islands move toward the northwest direction because the plate that the islands are on is moves in that direction.
The Hawaiian Islands were named Sandwich Islands by James Cook in the 1770s. Other Islands similarly named by Cook were Efate Island in The Republic of Vanuatu (Sandwich Island) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
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The Hawaiian islands were originally known as the Sandwich Islands.
Sandwich Islands after the English earl of Sandwich
Kelae, Hawaii
Ellice Islands
In 1778, Captain James Cook gave the name "Sandwich islands" to what is now known as the Hawaiian islands, or Hawaii.
In Hawaiian, "Hawaii" means "homeland" or "place of the gods." It refers to the native name for the Hawaiian Islands.
The Hawaiian Goose or Nēnē, Branta sandvicensis, is a species of goose endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. The official bird of the State of Hawaiʻi, the Nēnē is exclusively found in the wild on the islands of Maui, Kauaʻi and Hawaiʻi. The Nēnē gets its Hawaiian name from its soft call.
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The Hawaiian Islands. Polynesia.
There are two active volcanoes in the Hawaiian islands, Mauna Loa and Kilauea
Hawaiian Islands
Hawaiian Islands Invitational was created in 2011.