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Several "multiple migration" theories exist. One variation suggests that the original people of Hawaii were a diminutive people of unknown origin called ''[[Menehune]]''; these could have been followed by settlers from the [[Marquesas Islands]], and then later settlement by Tahitians and Samoans.
There are numerous possible accounts of landings by Europeans, Chinese and others long before the arrival of Captain Cook; however, none of these have been documented with certainty. [[Juan de Gaitán]] is said to have arrived in Hawaii in 1555.{{Citation needed|date=July 2012}} There are Spanish maps of the era in which islands are shown in Hawaii latitude, but 10° further east. The first sea chart that would prove this is dated 1551, signed by Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian and French cartographers, in which is shown an archipelago located at points close to the place Hawaii occupies on the globe.{{Citation needed|date=July 2012}}▼
On January 18, 1778 Captain [[James Cook]] and his crew, while attempting to discover the [[Northwest Passage]] between Alaska and Asia, were surprised to find the Hawaiian islands so far north in the Pacific.<ref>{{cite web |author= Paul Capper |publisher= The Captain Cook Society |title= Chronology: The Third Voyage (1776-1780) |url= http://www.captaincooksociety.com/ccsu65.htm |accessdate=2010-03-02 }}</ref> He named them the "Sandwich Islands", after the fourth [[Earl of Sandwich]]. After the discovery by Cook, other Europeans and Americans came to the Sandwich Islands.▼
▲On January 18, 1778 Captain [[James Cook]] and his crew, while attempting to discover the [[Northwest Passage]] between Alaska and Asia, were surprised to find the Hawaiian islands so far north in the Pacific.<ref>{{cite web |author= Paul Capper |publisher= The Captain Cook Society |title= Chronology: The Third Voyage (1776-1780) |url= http://www.captaincooksociety.com/ccsu65.htm |accessdate=2010-03-02 }}</ref> He named them the "Sandwich Islands", after the fourth [[Earl of Sandwich]]. After the discovery by Cook, other Europeans and Americans came to the Sandwich Islands.
▲[[Juan de Gaitán]] is said to have arrived in Hawaii in 1555.{{Citation needed|date=July 2012}} There are Spanish maps of the era in which islands are shown in Hawaii latitude, but 10° further east. The first sea chart that would prove this is dated 1551, signed by Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian and French cartographers, in which is shown an archipelago located at points close to the place Hawaii occupies on the globe.{{Citation needed|date=July 2012}}
==Kingdom of Hawaii==
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