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About Hawaii
The US state of Hawaii is an island group located in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, about 4,400 km (2,800 mi) south of Alaska, and 4,200 km (2,600 mi) north of Tahiti (French Polynesia).
Short history
The Hawaiian Islands were first settled as early as 400 C.E., when Polynesians from the Marquesas Islands, 3550 km (2200 mi) away, traveled to Hawaii’s Big Island in canoes. The islands were later ‘discovered’ by Captain James Cook in 1778, who named the archipelago the Sandwich Islands.
Satellite Image map of Hawaii’s main islands: Hawaii, Kahoolawe, Maui, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai, and Niihau.
One hundred plus years later, in 1893, a Hawaii-based secret society called the Hawaiian League, a group of planters and businessmen (mainly white men of North American origin) led a coup against Queen Liliuokalani, at that time monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and established an oligarchical government.
The anti-monarchist and pro-American group sought annexation by the United States, but then-incumbent President Grover Cleveland rejected their requests. In 1898, however, President McKinley and the American public were more favorably disposed toward acquiring the islands. Sixty years later, Hawaii was admitted as the 50th state, admission to the Union on the 21st August 1959.
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