Polynesia
... Cook Islands, Coral Sea Islands, Cuba, Cyprus, Dominica, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Faroe Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Greenland, Grenada, Guam, Guernsey, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Howland ...
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Polynesian
Samoan 90.6% (closely related to Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages), English 2.9%, Tongan 2.4%, other Pacific islander 2.1%, other 2% note: most people are bilingual (2000 census)
www.exxun.com/AmericanSamoa/c_pp.html
Polynesian
American Samoa has a traditional Polynesian economy in which more than 90% of the land is communally owned. Economic activity is strongly linked to the US with which American Samoa conducts most ...
www.exxun.com/AmericanSamoa/e_ec.html
Polynesian
Cook Island Maori (Polynesian) 87.7%, part Cook Island Maori 5.8%, other 6.5% (2001 census)
www.exxun.com/CookIslands/c_pp.html
Polynesian
Fijian 54.8% (predominantly Melanesian with a Polynesian admixture), Indian 37.4%, other 7.9% (European, other Pacific Islanders, Chinese) (2005 estimate)
www.exxun.com/Fiji/c_pp.html
Polynesian
The French annexed various Polynesian island groups during the 19th century. In September 1995, France stirred up widespread protests by resuming nuclear testing on the Mururoa atoll after a three-year moratorium ...
www.exxun.com/FrenchPolynesia/a_fg.html
Polynesian
French 61.1% (official), Polynesian 31.4% (official), Asian languages 1.2%, other 0.3%, unspecified 6% (2002 census)
www.exxun.com/FrenchPolynesia/c_pp.html
Polynesian
Chuukese 48.8%, Pohnpeian 24.2%, Kosraean 6.2%, Yapese 5.2%, Yap outer islands 4.5%, Asian 1.8%, Polynesian 1.5%, other 6.4%, unknown 1.4% (2000 census)
www.exxun.com/Micronesia_FederatedStatesof/c_pp.html
Polynesian
Melanesian 42.5%, European 37.1%, Wallisian 8.4%, Polynesian 3.8%, Indonesian 3.6%, Vietnamese 1.6%, other 3%
www.exxun.com/NewCaledonia/c_pp.html
Polynesian
The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria ...
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Polynesian
Niue's remoteness, as well as cultural and linguistic differences between its Polynesian inhabitants and those of the rest of the Cook Islands, have caused it to be separately administered. The population ...
www.exxun.com/Niue/a_fg.html
Polynesian
Niuean, a Polynesian language closely related to Tongan and Samoan; English
www.exxun.com/Niue/c_pp.html
Polynesian
descendants of the Bounty mutineers, Australian, New Zealander, Polynesian
www.exxun.com/NorfolkIsland/c_pp.html
Polynesian
Melanesian, Papuan, Negrito, Micronesian, Polynesian
www.exxun.com/PapuaNewGuinea/c_pp.html
Polynesian
... a mandate and then as a trust territory until 1962, when the islands became the first Polynesian nation to reestablish independence in the 20th century. The country dropped the "Western" from its ...
www.exxun.com/Samoa/a_fg.html
Polynesian
Samoan 92.6%, Euronesians 7% (persons of European and Polynesian blood), Europeans 0.4%
www.exxun.com/Samoa/c_pp.html
Polynesian
Melanesian 94.5%, Polynesian 3%, Micronesian 1.2%, other 1.1%, unspecified 0.2% (1999 census)
www.exxun.com/SolomonIslands/c_pp.html
Polynesian
Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority
www.exxun.com/EastTimor/c_pp.html
Polynesian
Originally settled by Polynesian emigrants from surrounding island groups, the Tokelau Islands were made a British protectorate in 1889. They were transferred to New Zealand administration in 1925.
www.exxun.com/Tokelau/a_fg.html
Polynesian
Tokelauan (a Polynesian language), English
www.exxun.com/Tokelau/c_pp.html
Polynesian
... never completely lost its indigenous governance. The archipelagos of "The Friendly Islands" were united into a Polynesian kingdom in 1845. Tonga became a constitutional monarchy in 1875 and a British protectorate in ...
www.exxun.com/Tonga/a_fg.html
Polynesian
Polynesian, Europeans
www.exxun.com/Tonga/c_pp.html
Polynesian
Polynesian 96%, Micronesian 4%
www.exxun.com/Tuvalu/c_pp.html
Polynesian
Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
www.exxun.com/Vietnam/c_pp.html
Polynesian
Wallisian 58.9% (indigenous Polynesian language), Futunian 30.1%, French 10.8%, other 0.2% (2003 census)
www.exxun.com/WallisandFutuna/c_pp.html
Polynesians
... In 1974, ethnic differences within the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands caused the Polynesians of the Ellice Islands to vote for separation from the Micronesians of the Gilbert Islands ...
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