Honolulu
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- Names
Honolulu
Anorourou
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Tourist destination and important transport point for north Pacifc ports, including San Francisco, Panama and Sydney; missed by Captain Cook, harbor was entered by Captain William Brown in 1794; occupied by Russians, British and French in the 19th century; has many institutes for Hawaiian culture.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
- Born
Bernice Akamine (Hawaiian and Japanese, born 1949)
- Died
Jean Charlot (French, active Mexico and United States, 1898-1979)
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