The quick-service restaurant at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort is named for an explorer whose legacy many Indigenous ...

The first encounters between the native peoples ... Sandwich Islands. Captain Cook, Public Arcives of Canada Towards the end of his journeys, just after his discovery of the Hawaiian Islands ...

The area was primarily inhabited by native Hawaiians ... European contact with the Hawaiian Islands had occurred with Captain James Cook’s arrival in 1778, two years after the American ...

The Captain Cook Monument is a 27-foot obelisk that was erected in 1874 to memorialize where Cook died. He was killed in 1779 after a fight broke out between the Hawaiians and Westerners.