endemic_to black-fronted parakeet
The ___MASK81___ includes a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean . It is , politically and legally , part of French Polynesia . The archipelago is believed to have been named by Captain James Cook during his first voyage in 1769 , supposedly in honour of the Royal Society , the sponsor of the first British scientific survey of the islands ; however , Cook , himself , stated in his journal that he called the islands " Society " " as they lay contiguous to one another ." Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of ___MASK80___ ; this overseas collectivity of the French Republic is sometimes referred to as an overseas country . The island is located in the archipelago of the ___MASK81___ in the central Southern Pacific Ocean , and is divided into two parts : The bigger , northwestern part " Tahiti Nui " and the smaller , southeastern part " Tahiti Iti ". The island was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous with surrounding coral reefs . The population is 183 , 645 inhabitants ( 2012 census ), making it the most populous island of ___MASK80___ and accounting for 68 . 5 percent of its total population . The ___MASK92___ is the largest of the Earth ' s oceanic divisions . It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean ( or , depending on definition , to Antarctica ) in the south and is bounded by Asia and ___MASK98___ in the west and the Americas in the east . ___MASK80___ is an overseas collectivity of the French Republic ; " ( COM )", sometimes unofficially referred to as an overseas country ; " ( POM )". It is composed of 118 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over an expanse of more than in the South Pacific Ocean . Its total land area is . The extinct black - fronted parakeet or Tahiti parakeet ( Cyanoramphus zealandicus ) was endemic to the Pacific island of Tahiti . Its native name was simply ''    ( `` parrot '' ) according to Latham ( 1790 ) though White ( 1887 ) gives `` aa - maha '' . It was discovered on James Cook ' s first voyage in 1769 , on which the two specimens now in Liverpool and the one in the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum in Tring appear to have been collected . Two of them - one of those in Liverpool and the Tring specimen - may also have been taken on Cook ' s second voyage , in 1773 , but the type was painted by Sydney Parkinson who had died in 1771 . Another specimen , collected by Amadis in 1842 , is in the museum at Perpignan . The last known specimen was collected in 1844 by Lieutenant des Marolles , and is now housed in the Muséum national d ' Histoire naturelle , Paris . Polynesia ( from " poly " " many " + " nsos " " island ") is a subregion of Oceania , made up of over 1 , 000 islands scattered over the central and southern ___MASK92___ . The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are termed Polynesians and they share many similar traits including language family , culture , and beliefs . Historically , they were experienced sailors and used stars to navigate during the night .