Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's Polynesia recipes. This page provides links to all the Polynesian recipes presented on this site, with 167 recipes in total.

These recipes, for the major part, originate in the Polynesia. Otherwise they are fusion recipes with major Polynesian influences.

Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are called Polynesians. They have many things in common, including linguistic relations, cultural practices, and traditional beliefs. In centuries past, they had a strong shared tradition of sailing and using stars to navigate at night.

The term Polynésie was first used in 1756 by the French writer Charles de Brosses, who originally applied it to all the islands of the Pacific. In 1831, Jules Dumont d'Urville proposed a narrower definition during a lecture at the Société de Géographie of Paris. By tradition, the islands located in the southern Pacific have also often been called the South Sea Islands,[4] and their inhabitants have been called South Sea Islanders. The Hawaiian Islands have often been considered to be part of the South Sea Islands because of their relative proximity to the southern Pacific islands, even though they are in fact located in the North Pacific. Another term in use, which avoids this inconsistency, is 'the Polynesian Triangle' (from the shape created by the layout of the islands in the Pacific Ocean). This term makes clear that the grouping includes the Hawaiian Islands, which are located at the northern vertex of the referenced 'triangle'.

Polynesia is characterized by a small amount of land spread over a very large portion of the mid- and southern Pacific Ocean. It comprises approximately 300,000 to 310,000 square kilometres (117,000 to 118,000 sq mi) of land, of which more than 270,000 km2 (103,000 sq mi) are within New Zealand. The Hawaiian archipelago comprises about half the remainder.

Most Polynesian islands and archipelagos, including the Hawaiian Islands and Samoa, are composed of volcanic islands built by hotspots (volcanoes). The other land masses in Polynesia — New Zealand, Norfolk Island, and Ouvéa, the Polynesian outlier near New Caledonia — are the unsubmerged portions of the largely sunken continent of Zealandia.

The Polynesian people are considered, by linguistic, archaeological, and human genetic evidence, a subset of the sea-migrating Austronesian people. Tracing Polynesian languages places their prehistoric origins in Island Melanesia, Maritime Southeast Asia, and ultimately, in Taiwan.

Polynesia

Arms	Flag	Name of Territory	Capital	Name in Official Language(s)
		American Samoa (United States)	Pago Pago, Fagatogo	American Samoa/Amerika Sāmoa (Samoan)
		Cook Islands	Avarua	Cook Islands/Kūki 'Airani (Cook Islands Māori)/ Kūki Airani (Penrhyn)
		Easter Island (Chile)	Hanga Roa	Easter Island/Isla de Pascua (Spanish)/ Rapa Nui (Rapa Nui)
		French Polynesia (France)	Papeete	French Polynesia/Polynésie française (French)/ Pōrīnetia Farāni (Tahitian)
		Hawaii (United States)	Honolulu	Hawaii/Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian)
		Johnston Atoll (United States)	Johnston Atoll	Unpopulated
		Midway Atoll (United States)	Midway Atoll	Kuaihelani (Hawaiian)
		Niue	Alofi	Niue/Niuē (Niuean)
		Pitcairn Islands (United Kingdom)	Adamstown	Pitcairn Islands/Pitkern Ailen (Pitcairn-Norfolk)
		Samoa	Apia	Independent State of Samoa/Malo Saʻoloto Tutoʻatasi o Sāmoa (Samoan)
		Tokelau (New Zealand)	Atafu	Niger
		Tonga	Nukuʻalofa	Kingdom of Tonga/Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga (Tongan)
		Tuvalu	Funafuti	Tuvalu/Tuvalu (Tuvaluan)
		Wallis and Futuna (France)	Mata-Utu	Wallis and Futuna/Wallis-et-Futuna (French)/ ʻUvea mo Futuna (Wallisian and Futunan)