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James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
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James Cook
British explorer and naval officer (1728–1779)
Captain James Cook was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer who led three important voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans between 1768 and 1779. He completed the first recorded circumnavigation of the main islands of New Zealand, and was…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Hawaiian Islands
Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean
The Hawaiian Islands are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some 1,500 miles from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll. Formerly called the Sandwich Islands by…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)