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Old 09-29-2009, 03:48 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
The Sandwich Islands are indeed the Hawaiian Islands.
Yup!

When James Cook "discovered” them about two hundred years ago, he named them after the Earl of Sandwich.

Later they were renamed to “Hawaii”, or “The Hawaiian Islands” in keeping of what the seafaring Polynesians name the largest island in chain around a thousand years earlier.

I like to use the good Captains name for them as a conversation starter. Works, huh?
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