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(‘polynesia’ (UK: /ˌpɒlɪˈniːziə/, US: /-ʒə/; from Greek: πολύς polys “many” and ‘greek’: νῆσος nēsos “island”; french: polynésie, samoan: polenisia, māori: poronēhia or poronihia) is a subregion of ‘oceania’, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern ‘pacific ocean’)
(the indigenous people who inhabit the islands of ‘polynesia’ are termed ‘polynesians’, and share many similar traits including ‘language family’, ‘culture’, and ‘beliefs’)
(historically, they had a strong tradition of ‘sailing’ and using ‘stars’ to ‘navigate’ at ‘night’)
(the largest country in ‘polynesia’ is ‘new zealand’)
(the term polynesia was first used in ‘1756’ by a french writer named ‘charles de brosses’, and originally applied to all the islands of the ‘pacific’)
(in ‘1831’, ‘jules dumont d’urville’ proposed a restriction on its use during a lecture to the ‘geographical society of paris’)
(historically, the islands of the ‘south seas’ have been known as south sea islands, and their inhabitants as ‘south sea islanders’, even though the ‘hawaiian islands’ are located in the ‘north pacific’)
(another term, the ‘polynesian triangle’, explicitly includes the ‘hawaiian Islands’, as they form its ‘northern vertex’)
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