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The earliest settlements in the Hawaiian Islands were made by Polynesians who traveled to Hawaii. On January 18, 1778, Captain James Cook and his crew, while attempting to discover the Northwest Passage between Alaska and Asia, found the Hawaiian islands. He named them the "Sandwich Islands". It became a US state on August 20, 1959.

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James Cook officially discovered it in 1778. However the Hawaiian Islanders had found it about 1300 years earlier.

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Hawaii was founded in 1778

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