The Sandwich Islands later came to be known by their native name of Hawaii.
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.
When the Hawaiian islands were discovered by Captain Cook, he named them The Sandwich Islands after Earl Sandwich.
Captain Cook gave them the name of the Sandwich Islands.
Captain James cook fist named Hiwaii, the Sandwich islands before it was named Hiwaii.
James Cook
It was the Hawaiian Islands that were named the Sandwich Islands by James Cook in the 1770s.
Cook named the Hawaiian Islands the Sandwich Islands in honor of one of his sponsors, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. There are many references to Cook and the Sandwich Islands at the History of Mankind site in the related link.
Captain James Cook named the islands the "Sandwich Islands" after the Earl of Sandwich.
Captain James Cook initially named the Hawaiian Island the Sandwich Islands after the Earl of Sandwich. John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, at the time the First Lord of the Admiralty and Cook's superior officer, was one of Cook's major sponsors.
It was named the Sandwich Islands by Captain Cook.
Captain Cook named them the Sandwich Islands.
Captain Cook named them the Sandwich Islands.