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Lucayan Indians inhabited the Bahama islands when Christopher COLUMBUS first set foot in the New...

Discovered and claimed for Spain in 1499, Aruba was acquired by the Dutch in 1636....

The Siboney were the first people to inhabit the islands of Antigua and Barbuda in...

English settlers from Saint Kitts first colonized Anguilla in 1650. Great Britain administered the island...

Around 800 B.C., the first settlers arrived on the islands of Wallis and Futuna, which...

Early Micronesian and Polynesian settlers probably visited Wake Island, and oral legends tell of periodic...

Austronesian speakers from the Solomon Islands first settled Vanuatu around 2000 B.C. By around 1000,...

All of the following US Pacific Island territories except Midway Atoll constitute the Pacific Remote...

Voyagers from either Samoa or Tonga first populated Tuvalu in the first millennium A.D., and...

The first humans arrived in Tonga around 1000 B.C. The islands’ politics were highly centralized...

Tokelau is composed of three atolls (Fakaofo, Atafu, and Nukunonu), and it was first settled...