Alternatively, the "epe" and "momoku" may simply have been two groups or factions within the Polynesian population.

Sightseeing Auckland's Polynesian population is the largest of any city in the world, with a community of 100,000 Maoris.

Listless and plagued by diseases against which it had no natural immunity, the Polynesian population continued to plummet.

On Easter Island are the remains of an ancient culture that existed before ancestors of the present Polynesian population arrived in the 17th century.

The African tree bears larger fruit than Asian and Polynesian populations.

This atoll has a Polynesian population whose ancestors migrated westwards out of Polynesia.

A sizable Asian community rubs shoulders with the biggest Polynesian population of any city in the world.

Yet Henderson, too, bears abundant marks of a former Polynesian population.

Most Samoans are full-blooded and are one of the largest Polynesian populations in the world.

Moke is a term used by residents of the Hawaiian Islands to describe segments of the local Polynesian population.