The collective name for the islands of the central Pacific Ocean, including the Austral Islands, Cook Islands, Easter Island, HAWAII; NEW ZEALAND; Phoenix Islands, PITCAIRN ISLAND; SAMOA; TONGA; Tuamotu Archipelago, Wake Island, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. Polynesians are of the Caucasoid race, but many are of mixed origin. Polynesia is from the Greek poly, many + nesos, island, with reference to the many islands in the group. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p966 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p426)
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French Polynesia. : Le Paraha peue, Platax orbicularis : Biologie, pêche, aquaculture et marché / Éric Gasset et Georges Remoissenet
Archaeology -- French Polynesia -- Rapa. : Taking the high ground : the archaeology of Rapa, a fortified island in remote East Polynesia / edited by Atholl Anderson and Douglas J. Kennett
Environmental impact analysis -- French Polynesia -- Mururoa Atoll. : The impact of nuclear testing at Mururoa and Fangataufa : a paper prepared for the South Pacific Environment Ministers' Meeting by a scientific advisory group, Brisbane, Australia, 16-17 August 1995 / Office of the Chief Scientist, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Europe -- Relations : Pacific romanticism : Tahiti and the European imagination / Alexander H. Bolyanatz
2004
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Europe -- Relations : Pacific romanticism : Tahiti and the European imagination / Alexander H. Bolyanatz
2004
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Fish culture -- French Polynesia : Le Paraha peue, Platax orbicularis : Biologie, pêche, aquaculture et marché / Éric Gasset et Georges Remoissenet
2011
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Fishes -- French Polynesia : Le Paraha peue, Platax orbicularis : Biologie, pêche, aquaculture et marché / Éric Gasset et Georges Remoissenet
2011
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Folk dancing -- French Polynesia -- Tahiti : The spirit of dance. Ethnic dance arts / Cape Cod Community Television (C3TV) ; directed by Ed Etsten ; produced by Ken Glazebrook and Norah Dale Allen
Missionaries -- French Polynesia -- Tahiti (Island) -- History. : The history of the Tahitian mission, 1799-1830 / written by John Davies, missionary to the South Sea Islands ; with supplementary papers from the correspondence of the missionaries edited by C.W. Newbury
