Outside the Main Chain: The 129 “Other” Hawaiian Islands
Honolulu Harbor in 1881
The Hawaiian Islands, as you know from previous posts, are comprised of about 137 islands, islets, and shoals that were once known as the Sandwich Islands, named by Captain James Cook, whose trip there was sponsored by the fourth Earl of Sandwich.Now called the Hawaiian Islands, this archipelago of nineteen islands and atolls, numerous smaller islets, and undersea seamounts crawl northwest by southeast in the North Pacific Ocean at the top of the Polynesian Triangle. Thus endeth the history lesson.
Now on to the more interesting question: What’s with those other, tiny little hunks of lava out …read more
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