"Sandwich Islands" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1875, Isabella L. Bird, The Hawaiian Archipelago",
          "text": "[…]I should be sorry to form an unworthy estimate of that of my own circle, though I have several times met with the foregoing confusion, as well as the following and other equally ill-informed questions, one or two of which I reluctantly admit that I might have been guilty of myself before I visited the Pacific: “Whereabouts are the Sandwich Islands? They are not the same as the Fijis, are they?",
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        "An early name for the archipelago of nineteen Hawaiian Islands."
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        "(obsolete) An early name for the archipelago of nineteen Hawaiian Islands."
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        {
          "word": "sandwich"
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          "word": "Sandwich"
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          "english": "Manuae Island",
          "word": "Sandwich Island"
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        {
          "word": "South Sandwich Islands"
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          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "Sandvičʿyan kġziner",
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          "word": "Սանդվիչյան կղզիներ"
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          "lang": "Bengali",
          "roman": "haōẇai dippunjo",
          "sense": "Hawaiian Islands",
          "word": "হাওয়াই দ্বীপপুঞ্জ"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "Sándvičevy ostrová",
          "sense": "Hawaiian Islands",
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            "plural"
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          "word": "Са́ндвичевы острова́"
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        "James Cook",
        "John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich",
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  "word": "Sandwich Islands"
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      "word": "sandwich"
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      "english": "Manuae Island",
      "word": "Sandwich Island"
    },
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      "word": "South Sandwich Islands"
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      "roman": "Sandvičʿyan kġziner",
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      "roman": "haōẇai dippunjo",
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        "masculine",
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      "word": "Са́ндвичевы острова́"
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