Polynesian

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There are approximately forty Polynesian languages.

For the drinks Polynesian Pearl Divers.

Ever see a Polynesian Pearl Diver before?

Tregear, Edward Robert (1891) Maori Polynesian Comparative Dictionary .

Journal of the Polynesian Society 13 173 176.1904.

Marck, Jeff (2000), Topics in Polynesian languages and culture history .

... Polynesian Pearl Divers in The Blue Gardenia Cafe last night.

E.R.Tregear, Maori Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (Lyon and Blair Lambton Quay), 1891.

Tregear, Maori Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (Lyon and Blair Lambton Quay), 1891.

The Anutan Language Reconsidered Lexicon and Grammar of a Polynesian Outlier .

As one Polynesian said, I felt like jumping in the sky.

As one Polynesian said, he said, I felt like jumping in the sky.

I think this means divine power of the ocean in a Polynesian language.

The Malagasy language of Malayo Polynesian origin, is generally spoken throughout the island.

Unlike the majority of French Polynesian islands, the Marquesas are not surrounded by protective fringing reefs.

Virgin Samoa, formerly Polynesian Blue, is an airline that flies between Samoa, Australia and New Zealand.

The Tikopia language is a Polynesian Outlier language from the island of Tikopia in the Solomon Islands.

2. The Samoan Islands are believed to have been inhabited by Polynesian peoples for some 3,000 years.

Maori or Māori ( ) is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken by the Māori people, the indigenous population of New Zealand.

They have perplexed the most eminent scholars. These twins, ladies and gentlemen, born ten years ago today on a Polynesian island.

The name Polynesian Blue adopted in keeping with the Virgin Blue family of brands, which also included Christchurch based Pacific Blue Airlines.

The Contemporary Resort Hotel, the Polynesian Village, and Fort Wilderness were also completed in time for the park's opening on October 1, 1971.

These women are descendants of Polynesian navigators, trained in the old ways by their elders, and now they're passing it on to me.

Ethnically, the population breaks down into 89 per cent Samoan Polynesian, 2 per cent Caucasian, 4 per cent Tongan and 5 per cent others.

Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology (Greenwood Press New York, 1989), 2 3 N. Rutherford, Friendly Islands History of Tonga (Oxford University Press Oxford, 1977), 27 8.

Polynesian Airlines, Air New Zealand and Air Pacific provide regional air service to New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Vanuatu, Tonga, New Caledonia, Tahiti and the Cook Islands.

In May 1982 a Boeing 737 200 of Polynesian Airlines replaced the DC 9 this was replaced in turn by an Ansett 737 200 in October 1985.

2. Although there is evidence of previous occupation by Polynesian peoples, Pitcairn was uninhabited when a group of castaways from HMS Bounty arrived there in January 1790.

Now science may dismiss this methodology, but Polynesian navigators use it today because it provides them an accurate determination of the angle and direction of their vessel.

The Malayo Polynesian languages are spoken by the Austronesian people of the island nations of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean, with a smaller number in continental Asia.

Uses The tubers of Polynesian Arrowroot contain starch, making it an important food source for many Pacific Island cultures, primarily for the inhabitants of low islands and atolls.

Hawaii A History, from Polynesian Kingdom to American State (1961) Schweizer, Niklaus R. His Hawaiian Excellency The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy and the Annexation of Hawaii (1994).

From Tonga and Samoa, Polynesian culture spread to Eastern Polynesia areas including the Marquesas and the Society Islands, and then later to Hawaii, Easter Island, and New Zealand.

3. The Pitcairners have their own dialect, a mixture of eighteenth century English and Polynesian, with the former predominating since most of the island apos s contacts are with English speaking countries.

Before European exploration, the Polynesian expansion across the Pacific probably exterminated species at the rate of one every year or two, which is 50 to 100 times more extinctions than should occur naturally.

In addition to the question of New Caledonia, the Regional Seminar also focused attention on other relics of European colonialism, including French Polynesia, where Polynesian demands for independence seem to be gaining strength.

Some 90.6 per cent of the population 5 years of age and older speaks Samoan, which is closely related to Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages, and English and 2.9 per cent speaks English only.

Journal of a Cruise Among the Islands of the Western Pacific including the Feejees and Others Inhabited by the Polynesian Negro Races in her Majesty's Ship Havannah (reprinted by Southern Reprints, New Zealand, in 1987).

See also Melanesia Oceania Pacific Islands Pacific Ocean Polynesian outlier Three other Bass islands References Duff Islands, Solomon Islands, solomonislands.com.sb Ben Finney and Sam Low, Navigation , in K.R.Howe(eds), Vaka Moana Voyages of the Ancestors , Bateman, 2007.

And they've been uninhabited for most of time because even in the ancient days, these islands were too far away from the bright lights of Fiji and Hawaii and Tahiti for those ancient Polynesian mariners that were traversing the Pacific so widely.

In January 2005, Aloha Airlines discontinued its flights to Pago Pago, after filing for chapter 11 at the United States Bankruptcy Court in Honolulu earlier.28 The Government of American Samoa, led by Deputy Prime Minister Misa Telefoni, is currently engaged in talks with the Australian low cost carrier Virgin Blue, which is scheduled to launch a new airline, Polynesian Blue, a low cost joint venture carrier.