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The Captain James Cook Memorial
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Kealakekua Bay, in Hawaii, is an important historic location as it marks the site where the first westerner, Captain James Cook, landed on an Hawaii Island. Only a year later, he was killed in a skirmish with native Hawaiians in Kealakekua Bay. A white obelisk on the shore of Kealakekua Bay State Historical Park memorializes his death.