"Sandwich Islands" redirects here. For other uses, see Sandwich Islands (disambiguation). For the list of individual islands belonging to the state of Hawaii, see List of islands of Hawaii.
The Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiian: Mokupuni Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll. Formerly called the Sandwich Islands,[a] the present name for the archipelago is derived from the name of its largest island, Hawaiʻi.
The archipelago sits on the Pacific Plate. The islands are exposed peaks of a great undersea mountain range known as the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain, formed by volcanic activity over a hotspot in the Earth's mantle. The islands are about 1,860 miles (3,000 km) from the nearest continent and are part of the Polynesia subregion of Oceania.
The U.S. state of Hawaii occupies the archipelago almost in its entirety (including the mostly uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands), with the sole exception of Midway Atoll (a United States Minor Outlying Island). Hawaii is the only U.S. state that is situated entirely on an archipelago, and the only state not geographically connected with North America. The Northwestern islands (sometimes called the Leeward Islands) and surrounding seas are protected as a National Monument and World Heritage Site.
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The HawaiianIslands (Hawaiian: Mokupuni Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the...
Northwestern HawaiianIslands or Leeward HawaiianIslands are a series of islands and atolls in the Hawaiianisland chain located northwest of the islands of Kauai...
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The Hawaiian Kingdom, also known as Kingdom of Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian: Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi), was a sovereign state located in the HawaiianIslands which existed...
Kamehameha I established the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1795 after conquering most of the HawaiianIslands. In 1810, Kaumualiʻi became a vassal of Kamehameha...
The history of Hawaii is the story of human settlements in the HawaiianIslands. Polynesians arrived sometime between 1000 and 1200 AD. Kamehameha I, the...
Hawaii (/həˈwaɪ.i/ hə-WY-ee; Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi [həˈvɐjʔi, həˈwɐjʔi]) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3...
Hawaiian Airlines (Hawaiian: Hui Mokulele o Hawaiʻi [huwi mokulele o həˈʋɐjʔi]) is a commercial U.S. airline, headquartered at Honolulu, Hawaii. It is...
continental shore, the HawaiianIslands are the most isolated group of islands on the planet. The plant and animal life of the Hawaiian archipelago is the...
the HawaiianIslands from other land masses capable of supporting the Hawaiian monk seal, its habitat is limited to the HawaiianIslands. Hawaiian monk...
ruler from Hawaiiisland attempted to impose a singular "Hawaiian" religion on all the Hawaiianislands that was not Christianity. Today, Hawaiian religious...
kānaka ʻōiwi, Kānaka Maoli, and Hawaiʻi maoli) are the indigenous Polynesian people of the HawaiianIslands. Hawaii was settled at least 800 years ago...
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The Hawaiian sovereignty movement (Hawaiian: ke ea Hawaiʻi) is a grassroots political and cultural campaign to reestablish an autonomous or independent...
immigration from the Society Islands and Samoa-Tonga. Their languages, over time, became the Hawaiian language within the HawaiianIslands. Kimura and Wilson (1983)...
(/oʊˈɑːhuː/ oh-AH-hoo) (Hawaiian: Oʻahu (pronounced [oˈʔɐhu])) is the most populated and third-largest of the HawaiianIslands. The island of Oahu and the Northwestern...
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The Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus semotus), also known as ʻōpeʻapeʻa, is a species of bat endemic to the islands of Hawaiʻi. The Hawaiian hoary bat occupies...
Traditionally, researchers estimated the first settlement of the Hawaiianislands as having occurred sporadically between 400 and 1100 CE by Polynesian...
the Balearic Islands, the Åland Islands, The Bahamas, the Aegean Islands, the HawaiianIslands, the Canary Islands, Malta, the Azores, the Canadian Arctic...
the Hawaiian crow used to be relatively abundant on all the main islands of Hawaii, along with four other now-extinct crow species. The Hawaiian crow...
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