Lavinia Veiongo
Wife of King Tupou II of Tonga
Wife of King Tupou II of Tonga
Tahitian queen and memoirist
Pōmare IV was the regnant queen of the Kingdom of Tahiti from January 1827 until her death in September 1877.
Queen Salamāsina lived in 16th century Samoa and held the paramount position of Tafa‘ifā, after acquiring four papā or district titles. Her elevation to the highest chiefly ranks was a dynastic move by her relatives.
1900s Queen of Tonga
19th century queen of the Polynesian kingdom `Uvea, or Wallis Island
Putahaie, likely born in the mid eighteenth century, was the wife of Temotei’i of Taiohae Bay, Nukuhiva, in the Marquesas and was a significant landholder in the western part of the island’s bay.
A paramount chief of the islands of Manu’a, now in American Samoa.
Sovereign queen of Hawaii
Kalanikauleleiaiwi was co-ruler of Hawai’i, alongside her brother King Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku, in the late 17th and early 18th century.