Location:

     The Pacific Island area is designated as the Island nations and territories/ colonies of the Southwest and Eastern Pacific, bounded from Papua New Guinea in the West to Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) in the East, from Hawaii and many tiny, far distanced islands of Micronesia in the North to the sub-Antarctic islands of New Zealand in the south, which are the most southerly distanced of the Polynesian/ Pacific colonisation.