Sandwich Islands
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Etymology
Named in 1778 by Captain James Cook in honour of the First Lord of the Admiralty, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.
Proper noun
- (obsolete) An early name for the archipelago of nineteen Hawaiian Islands.
- 1875, Isabella L. Bird, The Hawaiian Archipelago:
- […] I should be sorry to form an unworthy estimate of that of my own circle, though I have several times met with the foregoing confusion, as well as the following and other equally ill-informed questions, one or two of which I reluctantly admit that I might have been guilty of myself before I visited the Pacific: “Whereabouts are the Sandwich Islands? They are not the same as the Fijis, are they?
Related terms
- sandwich
- Sandwich
- Sandwich Island (Manuae Island)
- South Sandwich Islands
Translations
Hawaiian Islands
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