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The Sandwich Islands, so named by British explorer Capt. James Cook in 1778, are what is known today as the Hawaiian Islands, or the state of Hawaii, USA.
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Another name for the hawaiian islands?
Sandwich Islands after the English earl of Sandwich
What is the other name for big island of Hawaii?
Captain Cook gave them the name of the Sandwich Islands.
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.
What was the originial name for Hawaii?
The Sandwich Islands.
When did Captain James Cook name the islands the Sandwich Islands?
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.
What was the name given by islands in 1778 by the English sea captain James cook?
Captain James Cook named the islands the "Sandwich Islands" after the Earl of Sandwich.
Is there such a thing as the Sandwich Islands?
That was the name given by Captain James Cook to the Hawaian Islands.
What was the original name of the Hawaiian island?
The Hawaiian islands were originally known as the Sandwich Islands.
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.
He Hawaiian Islands were also known as the?
Sandwich islands.
Which state was originally called sandwich islnds?
The state of Hawaii was originally called the Sandwich Islands. They were designated as the Sandwich Islands from the English explorer Captain Cook back in 1778. Cook selected the name based on his superior who was named Sandwich.
