Masayendisiti anotenda kuti Great Polynesian Kutama kwakaitika munenge muna 1500 BC sezvo vanhu Austronesian akaenda parwendo vachishandisa yokudenga kufamba kuti vawane zvitsuwa muSouth Pacific Ocean. Zvitsuwa okutanga French Polynesia kuti kugadziriswa vaiva Marquesas Islands munenge muna 200 BC. The Polynesians gare gare vakashinga kumaodzanyemba kwakadziva kumadokero uye vakawana Society Islands kumativi AD 300. kusangana European akatanga muna 1521 apo Portuguese mutsvakurudzi Ferdinand Magellan, nechikepe basa Spanish Crown, akaona Puka-Puka muna Kamutu-Gambier Archipelago. Muna 1606 mumwe Spanish expedition pasi Pedro Fernandes de Queirós akayambuka kuburikidza Polynesia kuona chitsuwa aigara musi February 10 iyo vakadana (Amatoria) zvichida chitsuwa rekudenga navigation kuwana zvitsuwa muSouth Pacific Ocean.
1768 Makore gumi nematanhatu