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According to a study in France, executives and professionals are 2.6 centimetres (1.0 in) taller, and university students are 2.55 centimetres (1.0 in) taller than the national average. [7] As this case shows, data taken from a particular social group may not represent a total population in some countries.
Polynesian languages are all members of the family of Oceanic languages, a sub-branch of the Austronesian language family. Polynesian languages show a considerable degree of similarity. The vowels are generally the same—/a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, and /u/, pronounced as in Italian, Spanish, and German—and the consonants are always followed by a vowel.
New Zealand had the highest population of Polynesians, estimated at 110,000 in the 18th century. [10] Polynesians have acquired a reputation as great navigators, with their canoes reaching the most remote corners of the Pacific and allowing the settlement of islands as far apart as Hawaii, Rapanui (Easter Island), and Aotearoa (New Zealand). [11]
Height Area (km 2) average slope [1] Country or region Other countries or territories on island 1: New Guinea: Puncak Jaya: 4884 m 16,024 ft 785753: 0.00977 Central Papua Indonesia Papua New Guinea: 2: Hawaiʻi: Mauna Kea: 4207 m 13,802 ft 10430: 0.073 Hawaiʻi United States: 3: Borneo: Mount Kinabalu: 4095 m 13,435 ft 748168: 0.00839: Sabah ...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 5,086 square miles (13,170 km 2), of which 4,028 sq mi (10,430 km 2) is land and 1,058 sq mi (2,740 km 2) (20.8%) is water. [16] The county's land area comprises 62.7 percent of the state's land area. It is the highest percentage by any county in the United States.
Ancient Hawaiʻi was a caste society developed from ancestral Polynesians. In The overthrow of the kapu system in Hawaii, Stephenie Seto Levin describes the main classes: [27] Aliʻi. This class consisted of the high and lesser chiefs of the realms. They governed with divine power (mana) within a sometimes theocratic system. [28] Kahuna.
At its height the Hawaiian population an estimated 683,000 Native Hawaiians lived in the islands. [18] By 1900 the native population had dropped below 100,000. [ 18 ] The Native Hawaiian population was reduced to 20% of the total due to disease, inter-marriage and migration. [ 19 ]
1785 etching of Waimea, Kauai at the time of Cook's journey. There is no definitive date for the Polynesian discovery of Hawaii.However, high-precision radiocarbon dating in Hawaii using chronometric hygiene analysis, and taxonomic identification selection of samples, puts the initial such settlement of the Hawaiian Islands sometime between 940–1250 C.E., [4] originating from earlier ...