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Pacific Islander. Pacific Islanders originate from countries within the Oceanian regions of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, Pacificans or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the Pacific Islands. [1] As an ethnic / racial term, it is used to describe the original peoples—inhabitants and diasporas ...
Since first “discovering” the Pacific Ocean, Western explorers have baptized it Oceania with three sub regions called Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia. There are thousands of high volcanic islands, sandy coral atolls, and limestone outcroppings populated with Pacific Islanders who speak different languages and belong to different cultures.
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PACIFIC ISLANDERS. PACIFIC ISLANDERS do not form one distinctive ethnic group, but come from across Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia. Pacific Islanders come from the islands of Hawaii, the U.S. insular territories of American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands, as well as the Freely Associated States of Micronesia and the tiny nations of the Marshall Islands and Palau.
Sep 22, 2021 · The findings chart a Polynesian settlement of the vast Pacific that began in the western Pacific, in Samoa. With their distinctive double canoes Polynesians then reached the Cook Islands ...
- Brian Handwerk
Papua New Guinea[edit] Main article: History of Papua New Guinea. The History of Papua New Guinea can be traced back to about 60,000 years ago when people first migrated towards the Australian continent. The written history began when European navigators first sighted New Guinea in the early part of the 16th century.
Oct 4, 2016 · Not only did the genetic data show the Asian ancestry in today's South Pacific Islanders comes from the Lapita, but that it was more likely to come from women than men. This indicated the first ...
Jun 7, 2004 · The human settlement of the Pacific in general, and the origin of the Polynesians in particular, have been topics of debate for over two centuries. Polynesian origins are most immediately traced to people who arrived in the Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa region ≈3,000 B.P. and are clearly associated with the Lapita Cultural Complex.
