The history, culture, and cuisine of the many Pacific Islands including Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Australia and New Zealand. Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, and the Philippines are covered in other presentations

1. Pacific Islands History
for Zoey and Kaya
Created by GrandBob
Muse
Grandma

2. Selected Interesting Slides
from Pacific Islands History
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3. This is an excerpt from World History Lessons for Zoey and Kaya
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This is a draft that will be added to in the future.

4. Overview

5. Contents
Overview
Polynesia
New Zealand
Melanesia
Australia
Micronesia
Other Islands
Cuisines

6. Pacific Island Countries Map
EEZ
List of Pacific Islands

7. Lapita 1600 - 500 BC

8. Pacific Islands Regions Map

9. Migration of Austronesians
Polynesians reach America

10. Polynesian Voyages 1300 BC - 900 AD

11. Spanish Trade Routes 1565-1815

12. Tasman’s Voyages

13. Captain Cook’s Voyages
Early European Explorers

14. Japanese Expansion in Pacific

15. University of the South Pacific
Members in Yellow and Pink

16. Polynesia

17. Cook Islands
Travel Guide Tour Guide
Cook Islanders Pasifika Festival
Visiting
Annexation 1900
Queen Makea
Te Maeva Nui
Raratonga

18. Easter Island
Rongorongo
Moai
Rapa Nui People 1816
Manu Piri
Birdman Competition
History of the Moai

19. Hawaii
Travel Guide
Napali Coast, Kauai Big Island Volcanos
Big Island Mauna Kea
Maui Haleakala
Oahu Diamond Back and Waikiki

20. Hawaiian History
Kamehameha I
Missionaries
Pearl Harbor Attack
Death of Captain Cook Queen Liliʻuoalani
Plantations
Statehood
Stolen Paradise
Timeline

21. Hawaiian Music
Playlist
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole Don Ho Ledward Kaapana
Taimane Gardner Sons of Hawaii 1960-1989
Original Group
Keola Beamer

22. Marquesas
Breadfruit Tree Fatu Hiva
Loading Copra Ua Huka
Copra
Nuka Hiva
Brando Resort Tetiꞌaroa
Culture
Hiva Oa
Map
Scenic Video

23. Travel Guide Nieu
Pasifika Festival
Takalo
Coastline
Coral Chasm
King Tongia
History
Travel Video

24. Samoa
Travel Guide
Fire Dance Pasifika Festival
Map
Coming of Age in Samoa
Margaret Mead in Samoa
Tourist Guide
Apia
German Samoa

25. Samoa Islands

26. American Samoa
Pago Pago
Visiting American Samoa
Tui Manu’a Chiefs
Elisala 1909
Matelita 1895
Manuʻa Islands
Manuʻa Confederacy
Manuʻa
Tokelau Atolls

27. Society Islands
Travel Guide
8 Society Islands
Papeete Tahiti
Gaugin in Tahiti
Moorea
Tour Guide
Bora Bora
Comparison of Islands

28. Tonga
Travel Guide
Dude in Tonga
Olympics
Tupou_VI
Kava Culture
Kava
Tonga Dancers at Pasifika

29. Tuvalu
Travel Guide
.tv is a money maker
Pasifika
Tuvalu’s Islands Iakoba Italeli
Funafuti Atoll Highest Point
Tuvalu Disappearing?
Maneapa

30. Other Polynesian Islands and Settlements
Wallis and Fotuna
Pitcairn Island
History of Bounty Mutineers
Resettlement to Norfolk Island
Attractions
Tokelau
First 100% solar powered nation
Top export/import are oscilloscopes?
.tk is #1 country code on Internet
Tuamotus Archipelago

31. New Zealand

32. New Zealand Wars
1845 -1872
New Zealand Maori
Maori Haka Dance
Rugby Haka
Moriori on Chatham Islands
Moriori Massacre 1835
Musket Wars 1807-1837
Maori Arrival
Treaty of Waitangi 1840

33. Ardern
Tasman Cook
Visit New Zealand
New Zealand
Seddon
Anzac Day
Mosque Shootings 2019
Anzac Landing 1915
Pakeha

34. Scenic New Zealand (South Island)
Mt Cook
Milford Sound
Queenstown
Fox and Franz
Josef Glaciers
Abel Tasman
National Park
Coronet Peak

35. Scenic New Zealand (North Island)
Auckland
Coromandel Peninsula
Wellington
Bay of Islands Rotorua
Lake Taupo and Tongariro
National Park Waiheke Island
Napier

36. New Zealand Culture
Pasifika Festival Kiwi
God Defend New Zealand Anthem Marae
Hayley Westenra
Sheep

37. Melanesia

38. Scenic Fiji
Travel Guide Tour Guide
Most Beautiful Sites
Yasawa Islands
Pacific Harbour
Coral Coast

39. Fiji
Travel Guide
Fiji Warrior 1870
Seru Epenisa
Cakobau 1858
Kamisese Mara
Peace Message
Cannibalism Chaudhry
2000 Coup
Indo-Fijians
Tanoa Visawaqa

40. New Caledonia
Kanak People
Nouméa
Caldoche
Independence
Referendum
Reasons to Visit
Struggles
FLNKS
Ouvea Cave Hostage Crisis

41. Papua New Guinea
Travel Guide
Manus Island
Dude in New Guinea
Sing-Sing
Highlands
More Sing-Sing
Highlands and Islands Tok Pisin (Pidgin) Language
Wenda of
West Papua
New Guinea Tribes
Bismarck Archipelago

42. Solomon Islands
Travel Guide
Blond Solomon Islanders
Guadacanal Campaign 1942
Ethnic Violence
IFB(Guadacanal) MEF(Malaitans) RAMSI

43. Vanuatu
Travel Guide
Tour Guide
Tanna Movie
Tanna
Map of Vanuatu
(New Hebrides) John Frum (Cargo Cult)
Prince Phillip Movement
Lini
Stevens
Coconut War
Vanuatu Story
Moses
Land Diving

44. Australia

45. Scenic Australia
Travel Guide
Great Barrier Reef Uluru (Ayers Rock)
Great Ocean Road Lord Howe’s Island
Blue Mountains
Kakadu
National Park
Ball’s Pyramid
Australian Overview

46. Australian Cities
Sydney Harbor
Canberra
Brisbane
Darwin
Adelaide
Perth
Melbourne

47. Aborigines
Gurrumul
Goolagong
Origin
Dance Festival
Culture
Persecution
Music
Rock Painting
Torres Strait Islanders Belated Apology
Frontier Wars

48. Australian History after 1600
Polynesians visit Australia 1750
Tasman’s Voyages
Cook’s Voyages
Anzac Landing 1915
Ataturk Message
Convicts Resettlement 1788
Governor Phillip
1788 -1792
His Friend
Bennelong Macquarie
Appin Massacre
Squatting

49. Australian Culture
Ned Kelly
1906 Movie
Dame Edna
Jedda Galliopoli Mad Max
Baz Luhrman
Banjo Patterson
Waltzing Matilda
Miles Franklin
Colleen
McCullough
Patrick White
Lascaris

50. Australian Music
Gurrumul Slim Dusty Corroboree
Keith Urban
Helen Reddy Olivia Newton-John Joan Sutherland Jimmy Little

51. Tasmania
Aboriginal Tasmanians Tasmanian Devil
Tasman
Hobart Black War 1829
Topography
Mt Ossa
Bass Strait

52. Micronesia

53. Federated States of Micronesia

54. Federated States of Micronesia
Yap State is made up of 4 large islands, 7 small islands and 134 atolls, with a total land area of 45.6
square miles. Chuuk State has a total land area of 49.2 square miles and includes seven major
island groups. Pohnpei State has 133.4 square miles of land area, of which 130 is accounted for by
Pohnpei island, the largest in FSM. Kosrae is essentially one high island of 42.3 square miles.
Yap State
Kosrae State
Pohnpei State
Chuuk State
Chuuk(Truk) Lagoon
Yap Stone Money

55. Marianas
Travel Guide
Marianas Trench
Saipan
Guam
Guam Travel Guide
Spanish in Marianas 1590
Guam Governor
Guerrero

56. Marshall Islands
Bikini Atoll A-Bomb Test 1946
Marshall Islanders 1900
H-Bomb Test Enewetok 1952
Cactus Dome
Majuro
Map

57. Palau
Tourism
Koror Chieftains 1915
Koror
History and Culture
Chief Ibedul Gibbons

58. Other Islands

59. Nauru
Nauruan Civil War
1878 -1888
Satellite Image
Phosphate Mines Detention Centers
Most Obese Nation
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Money Laundering
Touring
Dude in Nauru

60. Galapagos Islands
Darwin in Galapagos
Blue Footed Booby
Galapagos Tortoise
Finches

61. United States Minor Outlying Islands
Guano Islands Act Jarvis Island Wildlife Refuge

62. Kiribati (Gilbert Islands)
Climate Change
Tarawa Atoll
Battle of Tarawa 1943
Tabiteuea Warriors 1841
Tourist Guide

63. Cocos Islands
Costa
Rica
Costa Rican Posession
Wafer Bay
Buried Treasure
Marcus Island

64. Minami-Tori-shima (Marcus Island)
War Years
Rare Earth
Treasure
Marcus
Island
Japan
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kilometers
Overview for DXers
Japanese Possession
A Small Very Valuable Island
Another Battleground Island Iwo Jima

65. Pacific Island Cuisine

66. Australian Cuisine
Snag
Meat Pie
Tropical Foods
Barramundi
Australian Rock Lobster
Ocean Trout
Weird Foods
Vegemite
Mod Oz Cusine

67. New Zealand Cuisine
Pavlova
Lamb
Green Lipped Mussels
Jaffas
Whitebait Fritters Manuka Honey

68. Polynesian Cuisine
Cook Islands Ika Mata Samoan Paolo Worm
Tonga Lu
Tahitian Breadfruit
Hawaiian Poke
Tuvaluan Poi (Pulaka)
Taro

69. Maori Cuisine
Hangi
Kina (Sea Urchin)
Boil-up with Kumara
Koura (Crayfish) Puha
Paua(Abalone)

70. Melanesian Cuisine
Fiji Kokoda New Caledonia Bougna Vanuatu Laplap
Solomon Islands
Cassava Pudding
Papua New Guinea Mumu Papua New Guinea Sago

71. Micronesian Cuisine
Marianas Kelaguen Sweet Potatos and Bananas
Marinated and Barbecued
Chicken and Ribs
Marshall Islands
Chukuchuk
Guam Fina'denne'
Guamanian Dishes
10 Popular Dishes
Coconut Chicken Curry

72. Australian Aborigine Cuisine
Quandong
Bush Tucker Fruits
Kangaroo
Wichetty Grubs
Food Groups
Emu
Crocodile