Voyages to the islands of dreams
200 years ago, on October 26, 1824, the Berlin sculptor and draughtsman Johann Gottfried Schadow wrote under one of his drawings: “Harry Sandwich Islands. 26. octob. 1824.” Who was this “Harry” and where are the “Sandwich Islands” actually located? So much can already be revealed: Harry was the first Hawaiian who arrived in Prussia and his home islands are known today as Hawaiʻi – not to be confused with Haiti in the Caribbean.