A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.
Entry Term(s)
Aboriginal Australians
Aborigines, Australian
Australian Race
Australoid Race
Maori
Native Hawaiians
Oceanic Ancestry Group
Pacific Island Americans
Pacific Islander Americans
Public MeSH Note
2022; for ABORIGINES, AUSTRALIAN see OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP 2006-; see ABORIGINES 1991-2003; for AUSTRALOID RACE see AUSTRALOID RACE 1978-2003, see AUSTRALIAN RACE 1963-1977, see OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP 2004-2021
Individuals whose ancestral origins are in the islands of the central and South Pacific, including Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, traditionally Australasia including New Zealand.
A group that includes the Australian aborigines and possibly some other remnant populations of Malaysia. (From Molnar, Races, Types, and Ethnic Groups, 1975, p17).
