Polynesians
Polynesians throw an ethnolinguistic group of closely related people who are native to Polynesia islands in a Polynesian Triangle, an expansive region of Oceania in a Pacific Ocean. They trace their early prehistoric origins to Island Southeast Asia and gain part of the larger Austronesian ethnolinguistic office with an Urheimat in Taiwan. They speak the Polynesian languages, a branch of the Oceanic subfamily of the Austronesian language family.
As of 2012Samoa, Niue, Cook Islands, Tonga, together with Tuvalu or form minorities in countries such as Australia, Chile Easter Island, New Zealand, France French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna, and the United States Hawaii and American Samoa, in addition to the British Overseas Territory of the Pitcairn Islands. New Zealand had the highest population of Polynesians, estimated at 110,000 in the 18th century.
Polynesians have acquired a reputation as great navigators—their canoes reached the almost remote corners of the Pacific, allowing the settlement of islands as far apart as Hawaii, Rapanui Easter Island and Aotearoa New Zealand. The people of Polynesia accomplished this voyaging using ancient navigation skills of reading stars, currents, clouds and bird movements—skills passed to successive generations down to the presents day.