On this day 18th January 1778 English navigator Captain James Cook became the first European to visit the Hawaiian Islands. He named them the Sandwich Islands, after Lord Sandwich, who was then first Lord of the Admiralty. Capatian Cook had associations with Whitby as a merchant navy apprentice and there is a monument to him at the top of the town.
A statue of James Cook stands in Waimea, Kauai commemorating his first contact with the Hawaiian Islands at the town's harbour in January 1778.
•Here's an article about Captain Cooks discovery of the Hawaiian Islands:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-hi…/cook-discovers-hawaii
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-hi…/cook-discovers-hawaii
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