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	Polynesian Triangle - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Polynesian Triangle is a geographical region of the Pacific Ocean anchored by Hawai'i, Rapa Nui and New Zealand.
		The Polynesian Triangle is a region of the Pacific Ocean anchored by three island groups: Hawai'i, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and Aotearoa (New Zealand).
		The many island cultures within this vast triangle speak Polynesian languages which are classified by linguists as part of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup and thus ultimately derive from the proto-Austronesian language spoken in Southeast Asia 5000 years ago.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Polynesian_Triangle (168 words)

	Polynesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Polynesian languages are all members of the family of Oceanic languages, a sub-branch of the Austronesian language family.
		It is probable that the Polynesian navigators employed a whole range of techniques including use of the stars, the movement of ocean currents and wave patterns, the air and sea interference patterns caused by islands and atolls, the flight of birds, the winds and the weather (Gatty 1999).
		Thus Polynesian navigators would have then been able to sail toward the star they knew to be over their destination, and as it moved westward with time they would then set their course by the succeeding star which would have then moved over the target island (Gatty 1999).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polynesia (2049 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Polynesian
		At a time when European sailors were navigating by keeping a watch for the shore-line in daylight, Polynesians (and their relatives, the Micronesians) were navigating much of the Pacific Ocean, excluding, of course, the Arctic and Antarctic areas.
		However, in essence it is an anthropological term, referring to one of the three parts of Oceania (abstraction made of 'continental' Australia), the others being Micronesia and Melanesia, whose autochthonous (pre-colonial) population generally belongs to one ethno-cultural family as a result of centuries of maritime migrations.
		Thus Polynesian navigators were able to sail toward the star they knew to be over their destination temporarily and as it moved westward with time they would then steer towards the succeeding star which would have then moved over the target island.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Polynesian (594 words)

	Polynesian culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Polynesian navigators steered by the sun and the stars, and by careful observations of cloud reflections and bird flight patterns,were able to determine the existence and location of islands.
		Archaeological evidence indicates that by about 700 A.D., the Polynesians had settled the vast Polynesian triangle with its northern corner at Hawai'i, the eastern corner at Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and the southern corner in New Zealand.
		Polynesian mythology does not speak of explorers bent on conquest of new territories, but rather of heroic discoverers of new lands for the benefit of those who voyaged with them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polynesian_culture (1428 words)

	Wayfinders : Polynesian History and Origin
		Through a multi-disciplinary effort, recently enhanced by the contributions of modern Polynesians eager to experience their past, a picture is emerging of the development of a seafaring culture oriented toward oceanic exploration.
		Polynesian societies combined a strong authority structure based on genealogical ranking that was useful for mounting long expeditions and founding island colonies.
		The Polynesians' primary voyaging craft was the double canoe made of two hulls connected by lashed crossbeams.
	www.pbs.org /wayfinders/polynesian2.html (475 words)

	Polynesia - RecipeFacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Polynesian languages are all members of the family of Oceanic languages, a sub-branch of the Austronesian language family.
		It is probable that the Polynesian navigators employed a whole range of techniques including use of the stars, the movement of ocean currents and wave patterns, the air and sea interference patterns caused by islands and atolls, the flight of birds, the winds and the weather (Gatty 1999).
		Thus Polynesian navigators would have then been able to sail toward the star they knew to be over their destination, and as it moved westward with time they would then set their course by the succeeding star which would have then moved over the target island (Gatty 1999).
	www.recipeland.com:8080 /facts/Polynesia (2041 words)

	Wayfinders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Most Polynesian islands have these domesticates, which suggests that colonization was intentional since accidental drift voyagers were not likely to have carried all the plants and animals with them on short inter-island trips or fishing expeditions.
		That modern Polynesians have taken the lead in demonstrating the capabilities inherent in the technology and methods of their ancestors is doubly fitting, for not only do they have the desire and talent for voyaging, but they stand to benefit most by this effort to reestablish the deserved nautical reputation of their ancestors.
		Many contemporary Polynesians seem to be culturally adrift, neither fully participant in the modern cultures which have engulfed them, nor firmly anchored to even a memory of the ancient ways of life that once sustained their people.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /fr_polynesia/about_destin/wayfinders.html (4562 words)

	Polynesian Triangle Encyclopedia @ StardustMemories.com (Stardust Memories) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Polynesian Triangle is a geographical region of the Pacific Ocean anchored by Hawai'i, Rapa Nui and New Zealand.
		The Polynesian Triangle is a region of the Pacific Ocean anchored by three island groups: Hawai'i, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and Aotearoa (New Zealand).
		The many island cultures within this vast triangle speak Polynesian languages which are classified by linguists as part of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup and thus ultimately derive from the proto-Austronesian language spoken in Southeast Asia 5000 years ago.
	www.stardustmemories.com /encyclopedia/Polynesian_Triangle (240 words)

	The Northern Equatorial Islands
		It has been suggested that the Polynesians, who were practical naturalists, may have followed the flight of the golden plover, land birds that migrate south from Alaska in winter and return in summer, to lands which they knew awaited their coming in the northern seas.
		It is also certain that the Polynesians discovered the intervening islands and, though they passed on, they planted coconut palms and left enduring monuments composed of coral rock to bear witness to their discovery and temporary occupation.
		Polynesian hooks for bonito trolling are made in two parts: a shank of pearl shell which resembled a small fish when trolled and a curved piece which forms the point to hook the fish.
	www.janeresture.com /polynesia_line/index.htm (1851 words)

	Easter Island
		Polynesia as a geographic area encompasses a vast triangle of islands in the east-central and southern Pacific Ocean.
		The Hawaiian islands are at the tip of the Polynesian triangle with New Zealand and Easter Island at the base corners.
		This geographic region is known as the Polynesian Triangle and the people who populate it are known as Polynesians.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/pacific/polynesianeasterislands.html (489 words)

	Triangle (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Triangle (snooker), a device for align the balls at the start of each frame.
		Triangle piercing, one of several forms of female genital piercing
		Triangle choke, a chokehold common to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Triangle_(disambiguation) (155 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Polynesian Triangle
		The many island cultures within the Polynesian Triangle share a similar proto-Malayo-Polynesian language used in Southeast Asia 5000 years ago.
		Polynesians also share identical cultural traditions, arts, religion, sciences.
		Anthropologists believe that all Polynesians are related to a single proto-culture established in the South Pacific by migrant Malayo people.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Polynesian_Triangle (258 words)

	History of Polynesian Archaeology
		This was in essence a broadening of the Polynesian research agenda beyond narrow concerns with culture-historical sequences and the long-standing question of “Polynesian origins,” to encompass questions of cultural change and evolution, of the nature of prehistoric societies and political systems, and of their ecological and economic contexts.
		The Polynesian societies had been taken as a virtual “type” instance for the concept of the chiefdom, which was regarded by many processual archaeologists as a key intermediary stage in the evolution of human societies from simpler band and tribal levels of sociopolitical organization, to that of fully state level polities.
		Tikopia: The Prehistory and Ecology of a Polynesian Outlier.
	sscl.berkeley.edu /~oal/background/polyhist.htm (5333 words)

	Polynesian Triangle: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Polynesian Triangle is a region of the Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean quick summary:
		Easter island (polynesian: rapa nui ("great rapa"), spanish: isla de pascua) is an island in the south pacific ocean belonging to chile....
		Anthropologists believe that all Polynesians are related to a single proto-culture established in the South Pacific by migrant Malayo people.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/polynesian_triangle.htm (646 words)

	Polynesian Pathways
		The Polynesians live in some of the most isolated communities in the world, yet the people of Polynesia possess a richness of culture, that indicates a great deal of interaction has occurred with other cultures in their formative years.
		Somehow the Polynesians are supposed to have emerged from a society that took the richest, most charismatic man as their leader, to form a complex class society that was based on genealogies that went back 16,000 years.
		Polynesian gene movement is denoted by the orange, arriving in Hawaii 2,200 years ago.
	www.users.on.net /~mkfenn (1740 words)

	The Polynesian Gift to Utah
		The fact that the Polynesians had already settled every inhabitable island in the vast Polynesian Triangle (from Hawaii, to New Zealand, to Easter Island) centuries before Europeans arrived should, no doubt, be evident enough.
		He also believed Polynesians had sailed the Americas, acquired a taste for the sweet potato and brought it to the Pacific in much earlier times before Europeans had the courage to venture far off their comfortable shores.
		Hence, Polynesian navigation is dubbed by scholars as "drift" sailing as in aimless voyaging.
	www.kued.org /productions/polynesian/articles/vikings.html (1382 words)

	Are kanaka maoli indigenous to Hawai'i? - WorksOfConklin
		Anthropological research suggests that the Polynesian islands were settled by people originating from Asia, spreading through the south Pacific, and arriving in Hawai'i very late in the process.
		And within the Polynesian triangle, Hawai'i is one of the most recently settled island groups.
		Polynesians may be indigenous in various Pacific islands where they have lived for thousands of years, but kanaka maoli are not indigenous in Hawai'i any more than Normans are indigenous in England.
	kenconklin.org /mediawiki/index.php?title=Are_kanaka_maoli_indigenous_to_Hawai'i? (3042 words)

	History of the Polynesian Voyaging Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) was established in 1973-by Dr. Ben Finney, an anthropologist from California, Herb Kane, a Hawaiian artist; and Tommy Holmes, a man who loved the sea--to show that the ancient Polynesians could have purposefully settled the Polynesian Triangle in double-hulled, voyaging canoes using non-instrument navigation.
		Hokule'a's voyages to date had demonstrated that the ancient Polynesians could have intentionally settled the Polynesian Triangle -- an area of 10 million square miles, the largest nation on Earth -- one of the greatest feats of exploration in human history.
		In 1999, the Voyaging Society closed the Polynesian Triangle by sailing to the remote island of Rapa Nui.
	www.pvs-hawaii.com /about_pvshistory.htm (1560 words)

	Polynesian voyaging society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Start the Polynesian voyaging society article or add a request for it.
		Look for Polynesian voyaging society in Wiktionary, our sister dictionary project.
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	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/polynesian_voyaging_society (155 words)

	The Polynesian Triangle
		The following description of the Polynesian Triangle is drawn largely from the research of Kipeni Su'apa'ia, Ph.D., which was published in 1962.
		The triangle is formed by a line drawn from Hawaii to new Zealand, bending westward to include the Ellice Islands (Tuvalu) and passing between Fiji andTonga.
		All the Polynesians living south of the equator are fond of the New Zealand brands of butter, corned and frozen beef.
	www.janesoceania.com /polynesian_triangle/index.htm (1901 words)

	Samoan Sensation - Most Recent Posts
		Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium conditions were not met by the Polynesian forebears as they migrated from their ancient lands into the realm of Polynesia, Upolu and Savai'i of Samoa and Tonga in 2000BC (Genetic migration and Genetic drifting).
		Hence, population genetics led to the loss of unselected genes and the retention of naturally selected alleles necessary for survival on isolated Pacific islands, hence a new set of selected genes were able to survive and flourish onto offspring.
		Genetic marker analysis on Polynesians to retrieve resemblance to their forebears will be futile as it will not resemble any other race from before due to lost genes or even mixed genetics.
	www.samoa.co.uk /q-and-a/15839.html (641 words)

	The Ali'i Luau - Hawaii's Authentic Luau
		Luau, in Hawaiian and other Polynesian languages, is actually the name of the taro leaf, which when young and small is cooked like spinach and is often mixed with other foods, creating Hawaiian favorites such as luau squid or luau chicken; but today, luau is the commonly accepted name of a Hawaiian feast.
		When the rocks are sufficiently hot, any remaining firewood is removed and crushed banana stumps containing a lot of water are placed on top of the hot rocks — creating the steam — then the food is added, and everything is covered to seal in the steam.
		Since the Polynesian Cultural Center first opened its gates on October 12, 1963, more than 30 million visitors have experienced that same aloha spirit, which continues to be embodied by the Alii Luau.
	www.polynesia.org /dining/aliiluau.html (2630 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Polynesia
		Recent maternal mitochondrial DNA analysis suggests that Polynesians, including Tongans, Samoans, Niueans, Cook Islanders, Tahitians, Hawaiians, Marquesans and Māori, are genetically linked to indigenous peoples of parts of Southeast Asia including those of Taiwan.
		Recent studies into paternal Y chromosome analysis shows that Polynesians are also genetically linked to peoples of Melanesia (see "Melanesian Origin of Polynesian Y Chromosomes" and "Melanesian Origin of Polynesian Y Chromosomes (correction)" cited in References).
		Therefore it is current belief that the Polynesian people are a hybrid race between indigenous peoples of parts of Southeast Asia and peoples of Melanesia.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Polynesia (2418 words)

	Hawaii - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anthropologists believe that Polynesians from the Marquesas and Society Islands first populated the Hawaiian Islands at some time after AD 300-500, although recent evidence has pointed to an initial settlement of as late as AD 800-1000.
		Hawaiian is a member of the Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family.
		Hawai‘i represents the northernmost extension of the vast Polynesian triangle of the south and central Pacific Ocean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hawaii (5673 words)

	polynesian studies people of the pacific
		Some were saying that Polynesian people were issued from different places on earth and others thought they were on the spot before their continent sank." Learn about the various 'points of origin' that have been discussed.
		Nowhere else on earth will you find ancient Polynesian remains other than within the Polynesian Triangle or maybe along the coast of the adjacent land masses like the Americas." There is a lot of information which may make more sense for an advanced student.
		Early Polynesians migrated from the Samoan islands (settled in 2000-500BC) to Marquesas (100AD) to Tahiti (300AD) to Hawaii (500AD) and then upon return voyages from the east into the west, Polynesians settled Aotearoa (800-1000AD) from the Cook Islands." And this is only the beginning of the tale.
	www.archaeolink.com /polynesian_studies_people_of_the.htm (931 words)

	Intercultural Dance Festival
		A group of Polynesians was sitting around a campfire singing songs, talking “story”, missing the smells and fragrances of the ocean, flowers, foods and the respect of their culture; in general, they were missing their Islands.
		The large islands in this triangle are Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, Tonga, Tahiti, The Marquesa, and Fiji.
		As a young child, she used to dream about doing the hula, and anytime it was on the television she would stand in front of the television and try to imitate the dancers.
	www.uwgb.edu /idf/html/hulaHalauHistory.htm (898 words)

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