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The Norwegian barque Beta dropped anchor near this spot on February 18, 1881, and her sister ship Musca arrived in Honolulu on May 13, 1881, bringing more than six hundred Norwegians, Swedes, and Danes to work in the sugar cane fields and mills of the Hawaiian Kingdom in the first and only mass migration of Scandinavians to these islands. Their contribution to the life of the island, along with that of their countrymen who preceded or followed them, was honored on the centennial date of February 14, 1981, and again in 2006 on the 125th anniversary of the Scandinavians’ arrival in Hawaii.
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Maalaea, Hawaii · United States
