CIA World FactBook

Settlers from Papua arrived on the Solomon Islands around 30,000 years ago. About 6,000 years...

The first Austronesian settlers arrived in Samoa around 1000 B.C., and early Samoans traded and...

Polynesians were the first settlers on the four tiny islands that are now called the...

Humans arrived in the Palauan archipelago from Southeast Asia around 1000 B.C. and developed a...

Austronesian people settled the Northern Mariana Islands around 1500 B.C. These people became the indigenous...

Polynesians lived on Norfolk Island between 1200 and 1500, but the remote island was uninhabited...

Voyagers from Samoa first settled on Niue around A.D. 900, and a second main group...

Polynesians settled New Zealand between the late 1200s and the mid-1300s. They called the land...

The first humans settled in New Caledonia around 1600 B.C. The Lapita were skilled navigators,...

By 1000 B.C., Micronesian and Polynesian settlers inhabited Nauru, and the island was divided among...

Each of the four states that compose the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) -- Chuuk,...