Editing James Cook (section)

===Hawaii===
The third voyage began by sailing around South Africa, then into the Pacific Ocean.{{sfn|Hough|1994|pp=289-301}} After stopping in New Zealand, the expedition returned Omai to his homeland of Tahiti. Cook then travelled north and became the first recorded European to encounter the [[Hawaiian Islands]].{{sfn|Collingridge|2003|p=380}}{{efn|Some historians speculate that [[Manila galleon|Spanish trading ships]] may have seen or even visited the Hawaiian islands before Cook, but kept the discovery secret to protect their lucrative trade route between [[Acapulco]] and [[Manila]].<ref name=Kane>{{cite book| last = Kane| first = Herb Kawainui| author-link = Herb Kawainui Kane| editor = Bob Dye| chapter = The Manila Galleons| title = Hawaii Chronicles: Island History from the Pages of Honolulu Magazine| volume = I| publisher = [[University of Hawaiʻi Press]]| year = 1996|   pages = 25–32| isbn = 978-0-8248-1829-6}}</ref>
}} After his initial landfall in January 1778 at [[Waimea, Kauai County, Hawaii|Waimea]] harbour, [[Kauai]], Cook named the [[archipelago]] the "Sandwich Islands" after the [[John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich|fourth Earl of Sandwich]]—the acting [[Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty|First Lord of the Admiralty]].{{sfn|Collingridge|2003|p=380}}