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The history of Hawaii began with the discovery and settlement of the Hawaiian Islands by Polynesian people between 940 and 1200 AD. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first recorded and sustained contact with Europeans occurred by chance when British explorer James Cook sighted the islands in January 1778 during his third voyage of exploration .
[2] According to this research, settlement of the Hawaiian Islands took place c. 1219–1266. [2] This rapid colonization is believed to account for the "remarkable uniformity of East Polynesia culture, biology and language". [2]
Hawaii was originally settled by Polynesian voyagers from the Marquesas Islands or Tahiti. The date of their first arrival is uncertain. The date of their first arrival is uncertain. Early archaeological studies suggested they may have arrived as early as the 3rd century CE, [ 13 ] while more recent analyses suggest that they did not arrive ...
Apart from Norse contact and settlement, whether transoceanic travel occurred during the historic period, resulting in pre-Columbian contact between the settled American peoples and voyagers from other continents, is vigorously debated. Only a few cases of pre-Columbian contact are widely accepted by mainstream scientists and scholars.
1785 etching of Waimea, Kauai at the time of Cook's journey. There is no definitive date for the Polynesian discovery of Hawaii.However, high-precision radiocarbon dating in Hawaii using chronometric hygiene analysis, and taxonomic identification selection of samples, puts the initial such settlement of the Hawaiian Islands sometime between 940–1250 C.E., [4] originating from earlier ...
Though many Americans think of a vacation in a tropical paradise when imagining Hawaii, how the 50th state came to be a part of the U.S. is actually a much darker story, generations in the making ...
About 18,000 plots of 3 acres each were successfully claimed, [13] [14] representing 28,658 acres, or less than 1% of Hawaii’s land area (this was partly because significant parts of the mountainous islands were not suitable for agriculture or settlement). [15] The Kingdom's population at the time was some 82,000. [16]
The decision did not stop the voting itself, and a spokesman for the Na'i Aupuni continued to encourage those eligible to vote before the end of the set deadline of November 30, 2015. [ 22 ] The election was expected to have a cost of about $150,000, and voting was carried out by Elections America, a firm based in Washington D.C.