... , during another voyage to Antarctica with the aim of finding a northwest passage joining the Pacific with the Atlantic , he was killed by the natives in Hawaii . The voyage of Captain cook stimulated a keenness in many navigators to exploit the large riches like seals and whales of the Southern ocean. As a result ,on January 30,1920, Bransfield from Great Britain and on November 16 ... years old American sealer ,Nathniel Palmer discovered a long S-Shaped peninsula , which the Americans called Palmer Land , but the British called it Graham Land. During the same time, on January 26,1820, ...

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... gave Pago Pago to the United States and the rest of Samoa to Germany. Far more important to the United States in its expansionist mood was the acquisition of the Hawaiian Islands, first visited by American missionaries in the 1820's. Economic ties soon strengthened the religious connection. American immigrants produced sugar and pineapples there for the home market, and sailed ... their whalers into Hawaiian ports. Increasingly concerned about the dangers presented by imperialist rivalries in the Pacific, the Americans strengthened their naval power by securing from ... Hawaiians under...

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