Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, Pacificans or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the Pacific Islands. As an ethnic/racial term, it is used to describe the original peoples—inhabitants and diasporas—of any of the three major subregions of Oceania.
Peoples of the Pacific, published by Pacific House in San Francisco, 1940
Cook Island dancers at Auckland's Pasifika Festival, 2010
The Micronesians or Micronesian peoples are various closely related ethnic groups native to Micronesia, a region of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean. They are a part of the Austronesian ethnolinguistic group, which has an Urheimat in Taiwan.
Banaban children
Carolinian/Refaluwasch people in 1915
Chamorro people in 1915
Te Buki Dance in Kiribati