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The name that Captain Cook gave the Islands simply did not take the cartographer's fancy and they preferred using the Native name.
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What were the Hawaii island once called?
Sandwich Islands
What was the originial name for Hawaii?
The Sandwich Islands.
Which state was called the sandwich island?
Hawaii.
What is another name for the sandwich islands?
In 1778, Captain James Cook gave the name "Sandwich islands" to what is now known as the Hawaiian islands, or Hawaii.
What is the present name of the Sandwich Islands discovered by Captain Cook?
The Sandwich Islands are now known by their original native name of Hawaii.
What were the Sandwich Islands later named?
The Sandwich Islands later came to be known by their native name of Hawaii.
Why did Cook know that Hawaii was a Sandwich Island?
Sandwich Islands was just the name that James Cook gave to Hawaii, not knowing the native name for the islands he named them in honor of his boss the fourth Earl of Sandwich who was the First Lord of the Admiralty.
HOW did sandwich come to your language?
i was casting my bread upon the waters in Hawaii when it just came back as a tongue sandwich
What was Hawaii originally?
It was named the Sandwich Islands by Captain Cook.
What is the other name for big island of Hawaii?
Captain Cook gave them the name of the Sandwich Islands.
Who was the first to settle Hawaii?
The first people to settle in Hawaii were the Polynesians. Captain Cook soon found Hawaii and considered it the sandwich island.
Who was the first European explorers to reach Hawaii?
James Cook was the first European to reach Hawaii(Sandwich Islands)
