State board to consider name change from ‘Island of Hawai‘i’ to ‘Hawai‘i’

State board to consider name change from ‘Island of Hawai‘i’ to ‘Hawai‘i’

What’s in a name? That question remains a powerful one, more than four centuries after William Shakespeare posed it. The Hawai‘i Board on Geographic Names is scheduled to vote in its upcoming June meeting on its proposal to change the official name of the largest island in the Hawaiian archipelago from the “Island of Hawai‘i” to simply “Hawai‘i.” “That’s what is planned. If there are extended discussions, decision-making could be moved to the fo…