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unusual facts about Sandwich Islands


Sandwich Islands

Sandwich Island Sleeper or Eleotris sandwicensis, a species of fish endemic to the Hawaiian Islands


Francis Allyn Olmsted

He made a sea voyage to the Sandwich Islands for his health, and after his return he graduated from the medical department of Yale in 1844.

John Hatley

From there, the vessel sailed north and visited the Hawaiian Islands, the Sandwich Islands and was the first European ship to visit and chart the coastline from California to Alaska.


see also

Nelson Strait

Nelson Channel, a sea passage in the South Sandwich Islands, previously known as "Nelson Strait"

Robert Dampier

The ship was returning the bodies of King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamāmalu to the Hawaiian Islands (known by the British as "Sandwich Islands"), after both died from measles during a visit to England.

Scarlett

Scarlett Point, a location on Montagu Island, in the South Sandwich Islands

Third voyage of James Cook

In passing and after initial landfall at Waimea harbour, Kauai, Cook named the archipelago the "Sandwich Islands" after the fourth Earl of Sandwich—the acting First Lord of the Admiralty.

Thomas ap Catesby Jones

In 1843, Jones returned a young deserter, Herman Melville, from the Sandwich Islands to the United States.