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Samoa or Navigator Islands
Bougainville's name for the Samoa group, the "Navigator Islands," is used by the missionaries until about 1845 and in official dispatches until about 1870.
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Polynesia
This term is applied to the island groups east of long. 180° with the
Ellice and
Gilbert Islands and Rotumah, whose inhabitants belong racially to the Polynesian stock, light brown and intelligent Malaysian type of which the Samoans are typical.
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Melanesia
This term is applied to the island groups south of the equator to lat. 30° S. and between about 130° and 180° E. The inhabitants are a black, frizzy-haired negrito type far inferior to Polynesians in intelligence.
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Micronesia
This term is applied to the island groups north of the equator to lat. 20° N. between about 130° and 170° East longitude. The inhabitants are of a mixed race with certain Polynesian and certain Japanese characteristics.
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