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Polynesians

Polynesia (“many islands”) is one of the three major cultural areas or regions in the Pacific Ocean, the others being Micronesia (“small islands”) and Melanesia (dark or “black islands”). It was Dumont d'Urville who first subdivided Oceanic peoples into these groups ...

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