Hawaii

Millions of people around the world who have never visited the islands, have a clear perception of

Hawaii. The image of a "tropical paradise in the South Pacific", exotic, but safe, was created largely by the media in America - particularly the film industry in Hollywood in the 1930s This image resulted in a billion dollar industry and has attracted over 6 million visitors annually to the islands in the early twenty-first century. Place of Hawaii in the central Pacific as a destination apart from the rest of the United States, but its popularity is mainly due to the US connection.

Hawaii consists of a chain of volcanic islands that come as a geological hot spot on the bottom of the ocean in the North Pacific - in fact, the state takes its name from the largest of these islands. Hawaii is geographically isolated - 4000 km from the mainland of North America, but further away from Asia and the rest of Polynesia. The islands were first settled by Polynesians from Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands between 500 and 800 AD. However, it was not until 1795, shortly after the arrival of Captain Cook, the various tribes were united by Kamehameha the Great, founder of the Hawaiian monarchy. During the nineteenth century, Hawaii has come increasingly under American influence through the activities of whalers, missionaries and merchants, some of whom became plantation owners after the acquisition of tribal lands. Work was imported from China, Japan and other countries to work in the plantations, which would be in the multi-racial society that now characterizes the islands. These events had a number of environmental and social impacts:
_ Most of the plants and animals that had been protected by the native isolation, have been displaced by introduced species, and now only found in remote mountainous areas.
_ Native Hawaiians have become a marginalized minority in their own country, with its traditional culture endangered.

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