polynesia

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English - Turkish
polonezya adaları
(isim) Polinezya
{i} Polinezya

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French Polynesia
Fransız Polinezyası
English - English
Part of Oceania including Easter Island, Hawaii, New Zealand, and most of the islands between them
{i} group of islands in Pacific Ocean
Part of Oceania including Easter Island, Hawaii, New Zealand, Samoa, Tahiti, and Tonga
the islands in the central and southern Pacific Ocean, including the Hawaiian islands, Tonga, Samoa, and the islands of French Polynesia. Island group, scattered across a huge triangular area of the east-central Pacific Ocean. A subdivision of Oceania, Polynesia includes New Zealand, Hawaii, Samoa, the Line Islands, French Polynesia, the Cook Islands, the Phoenix Islands, Tuvalu, Tonga, and Easter Island. Fiji is sometimes included because of its Polynesian population. The islands are mostly small coral atolls; some are of volcanic origin. Most of the inhabitants are Polynesians, some of whom might be related to the Malay. Their languages belong to a subfamily of the Austronesian languages. Contact with European culture began in the late 1700s with the arrival of Spanish explorers and radically altered life in Polynesia. Colonizers, imposing Western belief systems and cultural ways, effectively wiped out local traditions and customs. Samoa and Tonga retain more of the traditional culture than the other islands
the islands in the eastern part of Oceania

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French Polynesia
Overseas territory of France in Oceania. Official name: Territory of French Polynesia
French Polynesia
{i} group of islands in the South Pacific that together form an overseas territory of France
French Polynesia
A French overseas territory in the south-central Pacific Ocean comprising some 120 islands, including the Society, Marquesas, and Austral islands and the Tuamotu archipelago. It was organized as a territory in 1903. Papeete, on the island of Tahiti, is the capital. Population: 166,753. about 130 islands in the southern Pacific Ocean, including Tahiti, which belong to France. Population: 253,506 (2001). Capital: Papeete. French Polynésie Française formerly French Oceania French overseas territory (pop., 2002 est.: 242,000), in the southern Pacific Ocean. French Polynesia has an area of some 1,550 sq mi (4,000 sq km), comprising 130 islands in five archipelagoes: the Society Islands, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Gambier Islands, the Marquesas Islands, and the Austral Islands. Tahiti, in the Society group, is the largest island and the site of the capital, Papeete. More than two-thirds of the population of French Polynesia lives on Tahiti. The islands became French protectorates in the 1840s, and in the 1880s the French colony of Oceania was established. It became an overseas territory of France after World War II and was granted partial autonomy in 1977
french polynesia
a French overseas possession in the South Pacific
polynesia

    Hyphenation

    Po·ly·ne·sia

    Turkish pronunciation

    pälînijı

    Pronunciation

    /ˌpäləˈnēᴢʜə/ /ˌpɑːlɪˈniːʒə/

    Etymology

    () From Ancient Greek πολύς (polus, “many”) + νήσος (nēsos, “island”); according to Moon Handbooks Tahiti, "the term Polynesia was coined by Charles de Brosses in 1756 and applied to all the Pacific islands. The present restricted use was proposed by Dumont d'Urville during a famous lecture at the Geographical Society in Paris in 1831."
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