No polynesia was actually not the first whatever to be settled and honestly i dont give a rats a$$ what other people say but i think that my big black booty was the first islad settled.
I want to know who settled on Manhattan Island first , was it Robert Edwards from Gibraltar?
They arrived from [[wiki/Polynesia|East Polynesia]] in several waves at some time before the year 1300, settled and developed a distinct culture.
No, Hawai`i is part of Polynesia not Micronesia or Melanesia which are two groups of islands further southeast in the Pacific. These groupings are named for characteristics the first western explorers noted when they "discovered" the islands. Polynesia- Many peoples; Micronesia- Small peoples; Melanesia- Dark peoples. Other Polynesian island (groups) include Aotearoa, Rapa Nui, Tonga, Samoa and French Polynesia.
Rhode Island
the land was settled
Midway Island
Prince Edward Island was settled by Europeans in the early 1700s, with the British establishing a colony on the island in 1769. Prior to European settlement, the island was inhabited by the Mi'kmaq people.
Rhode Island
The Spanish settled St. Augustine, Florida in 1565. The first English settlement was on Roanoke Island off the coast of NC in 1588. It disappeared. Jamestown, VA was the first permanent English colony in 1607.
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Samoa . its Samoan fire knife danceing . as in samoan saying ' Siva Afi ' . the first in polynesia
Columbus landed in the Bahamas