Over the centuries the continual movement and developments of the original society groups brought about local differences and adaptations of the cult within the Polynesian Triangle.

Geographically, the Polynesian Triangle is drawn by connecting the points of Hawaii, New Zealand and Easter Island.

It is the easternmost point in the Polynesian Triangle.

Outside the Polynesian Triangle, in areas commonly designated Micronesia and Melanesia, lie about two dozen islands, most of them small and widely separated, whose inhabitants speak Polynesian languages.

Tuvalu is on the western boundary of the Polynesian Triangle so that the northern islands of Tuvalu, particularly Nui have links to Micronesians from Kiribati.

The three wanted to show that ancient Polynesians could have purposely settled the Polynesian Triangle using non-instrument navigation.

In any of these cases we would be talking about the first European landing in the Polynesian Triangle, and it would bring forward in History such an event by several decades.

Nukuoro and Kapingamarangi constitute parts of the "Polynesian outlier" cultures lying well outside the Polynesian Triangle.

New Zealand forms the south-western corner of the Polynesian Triangle.

Takuu is one of the Polynesian outlier cultures which are situated outside of the Polynesian Triangle.