Question

The Pacific Ocean was one of the last places in the world to be fully mapped out by European explorers. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this British explorer who charted the Pacific Northwest coast during his expedition launched during the Nootka Crisis. An island named for this explorer was a notable exception of the parallel set by the 1846 Oregon Treaty.
ANSWER: George Vancouver
[10e] James Cook was killed on these islands after attempting to kidnap a local chieftain after failing to find the Northwest Passage in 1779. These islands became a kingdom under Kamehameha I.
ANSWER: Hawaiian Islands [accept Hawaii or Sandwich Islands]
[10h] This French explorer gave his name to many places across the Pacific during his 1785 voyage in the region, including the strait between Hokkaidō and Sakhalin and a bay on Maui, before his disappearance in the Solomon Islands in 1788.
ANSWER: Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Perouse [accept either underlined part; accept La Perouse strait]
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