how did the people of hawaii get there in the first place?

Question

I was just wondering the other day since Hawaii is in the middle of the ocean who discovered it..and were people already living their?

Answer 1

The Polynesians were able to get from island to island on rafts and/or canoes. Thor Heyerdahl proved this in 1947 when he made a raft of balsa logs on the coast of South America and floated across the Pacific to Tuamoutu Islands, some 4,300 miles away. This goes a long way towards explaining the vaguely unified culture - or at least striking cultural similarities - of Pacific Islanders separated by thousands of miles of ocean.

It is thought that the Pacific islands have been inhabited for between 1000-1500 years, but no earlier than this. This makes Polynesian civilization comfortably pre-Columbian, but by no means ancient.

The Hawaiian Islands were first discovered by Europeans by James Cook (who called them the Sandwich Islands) in 1778. The islands were inhabited when he arrived.

Answer 2

Some guy named Cook discovered it. The Sandwich Islands. As for the rest of it yes there were already people there, they came by boat.

Answer 3

Polynesians came from other Pacific Islands.

Answer 4

Heyerdahl's 'Kon-Tiki' voyage has proven that hawaiians r people of West coast of S.America.They r native Americans.Chk dis one
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki

Answer 5

They evolved from the coconut

Answer 6

they were there b4 all off the countries broke into different pieces

Answer 7

polynesians first emigrated there and formed their own culture.

Answer 8

uss enterprise

Answer 9

polynesians were living there.

Answer 10

boats