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"Great Islands" redirects here. Sandwich Island is also an early name for the Cook Islands
Cook Islands

The Cook Islands are a self-governing parliamentary democracy in Associated state with New Zealand. The fifteen small islands in this Pacific Ocean country have a total land area of 240 square kilometres , but the Cook Islands Exclusive Economic Zone covers 1.8 million square kilometres of ocean....
 island of Manuae, and for the island of Efate
Éfaté

Located at 16.69? S and 168.36? E in the Pacific Ocean, Efate is an island in Vanuatu . It is also known as ?le Vate. It is the most populous island in Vanuatu; in terms of land area Efate is Vanuatu's third largest island....
 in Vanuatu
Vanuatu

Vanuatu , officially the Republic of Vanuatu , is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, north-east of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and south of the Solomon Islands, near New Zealand....
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The Sandwich Islands was the name given to the Hawaiian Islands
Hawaiian Islands

The Hawaiian Islands are an archipelago of 19 islands and atolls, numerous smaller islets, and undersea seamounts in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some 1,500 miles from the Hawaii in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll....
 by Captain James Cook
James Cook

Captain James Cook Royal Society Royal Navy was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy....
 on his discovery of the islands on January 18, 1778. The name was made in honour of one of his sponsors, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, Privy Council of Great Britain, Fellow of the Royal Society succeeded his grandfather, the Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich, in 1729, at the age of ten....
, who was at the time the First Lord of the Admiralty and Cook's superior officer.






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"Great Islands" redirects here. Sandwich Island is also an early name for the Cook Islands
Cook Islands

The Cook Islands are a self-governing parliamentary democracy in Associated state with New Zealand. The fifteen small islands in this Pacific Ocean country have a total land area of 240 square kilometres , but the Cook Islands Exclusive Economic Zone covers 1.8 million square kilometres of ocean....
 island of Manuae, and for the island of Efate
Éfaté

Located at 16.69? S and 168.36? E in the Pacific Ocean, Efate is an island in Vanuatu . It is also known as ?le Vate. It is the most populous island in Vanuatu; in terms of land area Efate is Vanuatu's third largest island....
 in Vanuatu
Vanuatu

Vanuatu , officially the Republic of Vanuatu , is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, north-east of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and south of the Solomon Islands, near New Zealand....
.


The Sandwich Islands was the name given to the Hawaiian Islands
Hawaiian Islands

The Hawaiian Islands are an archipelago of 19 islands and atolls, numerous smaller islets, and undersea seamounts in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some 1,500 miles from the Hawaii in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll....
 by Captain James Cook
James Cook

Captain James Cook Royal Society Royal Navy was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy....
 on his discovery of the islands on January 18, 1778. The name was made in honour of one of his sponsors, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, Privy Council of Great Britain, Fellow of the Royal Society succeeded his grandfather, the Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich, in 1729, at the age of ten....
, who was at the time the First Lord of the Admiralty and Cook's superior officer. During the late 19th century, the name fell into disuse, replaced by Hawaii
Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
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The Sandwich Islands should not be confused with the South Sandwich Islands
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is a British overseas territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote and inhospitable collection of islands, consisting of South Georgia ? which measures approximately by and is by far the largest island in the territory ? and a chain of smaller islands known as the South Sand...
, a mostly uninhabited British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 dependency
Dependent territory

A dependent territory, dependent area or dependency is a Territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a State....
 in the southern Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface....
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See also

  • History of Hawaii
    History of Hawaii

    The history of Hawaii includes phases of early Polynesian settlement, British arrival, Euro-American and Asian immigration, the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, a brief period of existing as a Republic, and admission to the United States as a territory and then a state.A woman was believed to have founded Hawaii...