Polynesia consists of several thousand islands contained within an immense triangle in the central Pacific with its corners at Hawai'i, New Zealand, and Easter Island. Polynesian peoples also inhabit a few "outliers" to the west of...

Polynesia has been traditionally a region of anthropological interest, stimulated perhaps on the one hand by the *Romantic, *Rousseau-coloured journals of Bougainville and his ship-mates, and on the other hand by the availability of detailed...

Island group, scattered across a huge triangular area of the east-central Pacific Ocean. A subdivision of Oceania, Polynesia includes New Zealand, Hawaii, Samoa, the Line Islands, French Polynesia, the Cook Islands, the Phoenix Islands, Tuvalu, Tonga,...

Approx. thirty closely related languages of the Malayo-Polynesian family, spoken in the Polynesian Islands. Characteristics: extremely reduced sound system (e.g. Hawaiian has thirteen phonemes). Word order: VSO; tendency towards ergativity ( ergative...

Map of Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean Polynesia (from Greek: πολÏς many, νá¿σος island) is a subregion of Oceania, comprising a large grouping of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific...