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Descriptor English: | Hawaii | ||||
Descriptor Spanish: |
Hawaii
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Descriptor Portuguese: | Havaí | ||||
Descriptor French: | Hawaï | ||||
Entry term(s): |
Atoll de Midway Hawaii Iles Midway Îles Midway |
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Tree number(s): |
Z01.107.567.875.580.375 Z01.639.760.815.482 |
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RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006254 | ||||
Scope note: | A group of islands in Polynesia, in the north central Pacific Ocean, comprising eight major and 114 minor islands, largely volcanic and coral. Its capital is Honolulu. It was first reached by Polynesians about 500 A.D. It was discovered and named the Sandwich Islands in 1778 by Captain Cook. The islands were united under the rule of King Kamehameha 1795-1819 and requested annexation to the United States in 1893 when a provisional government was set up. Hawaii was established as a territory in 1900 and admitted as a state in 1959. The name is from the Polynesian Owhyhii, place of the gods, with reference to the two volcanoes Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, regarded as the abode of the gods. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p493 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p2330) |
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Annotation: | an island group in Polynesia; Hawaii is also the name of the largest island in the group |
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Allowable Qualifiers: |
EH ethnologie EP épidémiologie |
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DeCS ID: | 28063 | ||||
Unique ID: | D006254 | ||||
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||
Date Established: | 1966/01/01 | ||||
Date of Entry: | 1999/01/01 | ||||
Revision Date: | 2012/07/03 |
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Hawaï
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Iles Midway
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Concept UI |
M0009812 |
Preferred term | Hawaï |
Entry term(s) |
Hawaii |
Concept UI |
M0009813 |
Preferred term | Iles Midway |
Entry term(s) |
Atoll de Midway Îles Midway |
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