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Vague reports by various European explorers suggest that Hawaii was visited by foreigners well before the 1778 arrival of British explorer Captain James Cook. Historians credited Cook with the discovery after he was the first to plot and publish the geographical coordinates of the Hawaiian Islands. Cook named his discovery the Sandwich Islands in honor of one of his sponsors, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. In March 1959, both houses of Congress passed the Admission Act and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed it into law. (The act excluded Palmyra Atoll, part of the Kingdom and Territory of Hawai'i, from the new state.) On June 27 of that year, a plebiscite was held asking Hawaiians to vote on accepting the statehood bill. Hawai'i voted 17 to 1 to accept. On August 21, church bells throughout Honolulu were rung upon the proclamation that Hawai'i was finally the 50th state of the Union. |
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1. Dependency status: the 50th state of the United States 2. Government type: federal republic (USA) 3. Location: situated nearly at the center of the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii marks the northeast corner of Polynesia 4. Border Countries: none (islands) 5. Climate: warm and temperate6. Terrain: All of the Hawaiian Islands were formed by volcanoes arising from the sea floor through a vent described in geological theory as a hotspot. The volcanic activity and subsequent erosion created impressive geological features. Those conditions make Mount Waialeale the wettest place on earth; it averages 11.7 m (460 in) of rain annually 7. Area: 28,337 km2; Land - 16,649 km2; Water - 11,672 km2 8. Capital: Honolulu (on Oahu) 9. Administrative divisions: Hawaii is an archipelago of islands. There are eight major islands, six of which are open to tourism: Hawaii (Big Island), Oahu, Maui, Kaui, Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe, Niihau 10. Population: 1,211,537 inhabitians (2003) 11. Languages: Hawaiian English, English 12. Religions: Christian, Protestant 13. Currency: US dollar (USD) |
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