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  1. Polynesia - Wikipedia

    Polynesia is one of three major cultural areas of the Pacific Ocean islands, along with Melanesia and Micronesia. Polynesia is generally defined as the islands within the Polynesian Triangle.

  2. Polynesian culture | History, People, Religion, Traditions, & Facts ...

    Dec 11, 2025 · Polynesian culture, the beliefs and practices of the indigenous peoples of the ethnogeographic group of Pacific islands known as Polynesia, which encompasses a huge triangular …

  3. What Is Polynesia? - WorldAtlas

    Nov 23, 2020 · Polynesia is a grouping of over one thousand islands in the Pacific Ocean. In fact, the name Polynesia means “many islands” in Greek. These islands form a triangle with Hawaii in the …

  4. Polynesia - New World Encyclopedia

    Polynesia may be described as the islands within a triangle with its corners at Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand, and Easter Island. A Polynesian island group outside of this great triangle is Tuvalu. There …

  5. Smarthistory – Polynesia, an introduction

    Set within a triangle formed by Aotearoa (New Zealand) in the south, Hawaiʻi to the north and Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in the east, the Polynesian islands are dotted across the vast eastern Pacific Ocean.

  6. What is Polynesia? | Exploratorium

    Polynesia—from the Greek for "many islands"—is a collection of over 1,000 islands strewn over a broad region of the Pacific Ocean known as the Polynesian triangle.

  7. Polynesians - Encyclopedia.com

    The Polynesians are the original inhabitants of a vast string of islands in the Pacific Ocean that spans from New Zealand in the south to Hawaii in the north. The western boundary is Easter Island, and …

  8. Wayfinders : Polynesian History and Origin - PBS

    Only after many years of learning how to voyage long distances, and to survive on the high islands and atolls they found in the sea, did the ocean-oriented Polynesian culture take on its classic...

  9. Polynesian Countries 2026 - World Population Review

    List of Polynesian countries, a region in the central and southern Pacific Ocean consisting of over a thousand islands.

  10. POLYNESIAN Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    The meaning of POLYNESIAN is a member of any of the Indigenous peoples of Polynesia.