A Small Plot of Land Belongs to the United Kingdom
Captain James Cook, the first European to set foot in Hawaii in 1778, tragically met his end in a skirmish with locals at Kealakekua Bay.
Some hundred years later, King Kalakaua of Hawaii paid tribute to the esteemed British explorer by gifting a 5,682-square-foot parcel of land at Kealakekua Bay to the British government to construct a monument in Cook’s honor. Technically, anyone stepping into that area is on British soil.
