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Tikopia is a small high island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It is part of the Solomon Islands of Melanesia, but is culturally Polynesian. The first Europeans arrived on 22 April 1606 as part of the Spanish expedition of Pedro Fernandes de Queirós.
Usage examples of "tikopia".
I informed him that it was close to Tikopia, an island of which he also expressed his ignorance.
Rotumans scattered as far east as Samoa and as far west as Tikopia, and was told of a Tongan expedition which had set out for Rotuma and never been heard of since.
Polynesian languages and cultures far to the west of Polynesia, in the eastern sector of the Melanesian islands: Tikopia, Anuta, Rennell, Bellona, Stewart, Ontong Java, the Duffs, and numbers of others.
Codrington, an early missionary, recorded that eleven canoes from Tikopia visited the Banks Islands near the New Hebrides while he was living there!
Further to the west were scattered small communities of Polynesians, called the Polynesian outliers, including Ontong Java, Tikopia, Rennell and Bellona, Nukumanu, Kapingamarangi.
While most of them show signs of settlement or resettlement within the last seven hundred years, others, such as Anuta and Tikopia have been inhabited by Polynesian-related peoples for over two thousand years.
Challis developed his study more particularly with reference to the earlier evolution of Totemism, and he was able by his patient work among the Polynesians of Tikopia and Ontong Java, and his comparisons of those sporadic tribes with the Papuasians of Eastern New Guinea, to correct some of the inferences with regard to the origins of exogamy made by Dr.
YOU be able to help me in collating your notes of the Tikopia observations this morning, sir?