Sandwich Islands en · PROPN
Etymology
Named in 1778 by Captain James Cook in honour of the First Lord of the Admiralty, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.
Meanings
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(obsolete) An early name for the archipelago of nineteen Hawaiian Islands.
[…]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?
1875, Isabella L. Bird, The Hawaiian Archipelago:
Relateds
Sandwich Island · South Sandwich Islands · Sandwich · sandwich
Translations (5)
bg Са́ндвичеви о́строви (Hawaiian Islands) · de Sandwichinseln (Hawaiian Islands) · hy Սանդվիչյան կղզիներ (Hawaiian Islands) · ru Са́ндвичевы острова́ (Hawaiian Islands) · bn হাওয়াই দ্বীপপুঞ্জ (Hawaiian Islands)
wikipedia: James Cook · wikipedia: John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich