We stumbled across these gems along side the road that tell a story of when European sailing ships first began charting the Pacific Ocean.
Captain James Cook visited the islands on January 18,1778, and named them the Sandwich Islands in honor of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who was one of his sponsors as the First Lord of the Admiralty. This name was in use until the 1840s, when the local name Hawaii gradually began to take precedence. (source-Wikipedia)
My birthday gift this year from my family is an old map of Alaska, and in the bottom left corner is an archipelago called the Sandwich Islands. How cool is that?!
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Now that was an awesome find!!
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