Who Discovered Hawaii?
The first archaelogical evidence evidence of inhabitants on Hawaii was most likely Polynesian settlers from the Marquesas (Hawaii is part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania), and possibly the Society Islands between three hundred and five hundred CE, but was followed by settlers from other places. These places and dates are debated. The settlers could have been from Raiatea and Bora Bora, or from Tahiti. The debaters who say the Tahiti people came to Hawaii say that these people came around one thousand CE. The Tahiti people may have influenced the Hawaiian way of life, introducing human sacrificing, a new line of high chiefs, and other things. The first recorded European contact was of James Cook, a British Explorer, in 1778.