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Dependent territories in Polynesia

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American Samoa
unincorporated territory of the United States of America, located in the Pacific Ocean
French Polynesia
French overseas country in the southern Pacific Ocean
Easter Island
Polynesian island and special territory of Chile
Pitcairn Islands
British overseas territory in the South Pacific
Tokelau
Tokelau (; ; known previously as the Union Islands, and, until 1976, known officially as the Tokelau Islands) is a dependent territory of New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean. It consists of three tropical coral atolls: Atafu, Nukunonu, and Fakaofo. They have a combined land area of . In addition to these three, Swains Island (), which forms part of the same archipelago, is the subject of an ongoing territorial dispute, while being currently administered by the United States as part of American Samoa. Tokelau lies north of the Samoan Islands, east of Tuvalu, south of the Phoenix Islands,
Wallis and Futuna
overseas collectivity of France
Norfolk Island
external territory of Australia in the South Pacific Ocean, consisting of the island of the same name plus neighbouring islands
Rotuma
thumb|260px|Satellite image of Rotuma Rotuma () is a self-governing heptarchy, generally designated a dependency of Fiji. Rotuma commonly refers to the Rotuma Island, the only permanently inhabited and by far the largest of all the islands in the Rotuma Group. Officially, the Rotuma Act declares that Rotuma consists of Rotuma Island as well as its neighbouring islands, rocks, and reefs across the entire Rotuma Group. The dependency is situated around 500 km west of the French islands of Wallis and Futuna and a similar distance north of the Fijian mainland. Its capital is Ahau, a hamlet co