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Here's a little history of the islands provided by StateMaster.com.
Hawaii, also known historically as the Sandwich Islands, is composed of
19 islands and atolls forming the Hawaiian Archipelago. The chain owes
its existence to intense volcanic activity over thousands of years, and
today is the only state continuing to grow because of lava flows.
Hawaii also represents the
southernmost
point in the U.S., and the only state which is entirely tropical. It is
believed that the first inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands were
Polynesians who arrived around 300 AD. Some one thousand years later
Tahitian settlers conquered the island and wiped out the original
inhabitants. Though there are sketchy reports of earlier sightings and
explorations, Captain James Cook is generally regarded as the first
European explorer to set foot on Hawaii (as well as the first European
explorer to die on it) in 1778. Between 1795 and 1810, Hawaii began to
unify as one Kingdom, led by the skillful leader Kamehameha the Great.
The Hawaiian Kingdom did not last long however, and after effectively
sidelining the Monarchy with the Bayonet Constitution in 1887, Hawaii
was incorporated into the United States as a territory on June 15th
1898, and received full-fledged statehood a half a century later in
1959, becoming the 50th and last state in the Union.