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Aotea te Paratene

Aotea te Paratene ruled the Waikato people in Aotearoa, or New Zealand, as one of four known wives of King Tāwhiao.

Falakika Seilala

19th century queen of the Polynesian kingdom `Uvea, or Wallis Island

Ines

Doña Ines was a fifteenth-sixteenth century caciqua of Taíno origin

Hinematioro

Hinematioro was a woman of high standing among the East Coast peoples from Whāngārā to Ūawa (Tolaga Bay) in 1700s New Zealand.

Makea Takau

Makea Takau Ariki was chiefess of the Makea Nui dynasty, one of the three chiefdoms on the island of Rarotonga.

Lavinia Veiongo

Wife of King Tupou II of Tonga

Marau Taaroa

Tahitian queen and memoirist

Pōmare IV

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.

Sālote Toupou III

1900s Queen of Tonga