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Sandwich Islands

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Sandwich Islands

Former name of Hawaii, a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. Captain James Cook originally named the islands in 1778, in honour of John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who was then First Lord of the British Admiralty, and Cook's superior.



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The frigate passed at some distance from the Marquesas and the Sandwich Islands, crossed the tropic of Cancer, and made for the China Seas.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
  world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages,
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-- the big sloop that had come up from the Sandwich Islands where it had been engaged in smuggling opium.
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