Cecilia Cruz Bamba
Chamorro woman orphaned at the age of nine during the Japanese attacks on Guam in 1941. Motivated by the grandmother who raised her, Bamba became a senator, businesswoman, and community leader.
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Emma of Hawai’i
Queen of Hawai’i in the 1800s
Kapi’olani
Chiefess of Hawaii in the 1800s
Teha’apapa I
Teha‘apapa was queen regnant of Huahine, in what is now French Polynesia.
Teha’apapa II
Queen regnant of Raiatea and Tahaa in the 1800s
Teha’apapa III
Tehaapapa III was queen of Huahine, an island in the Pacific Ocean which was annexed by France in 1895.
Teri’i-maeva-rua II
In July 1860, at the age of 19, Teri’i-maeva-rua became queen of Bora Bora after her step-father, King Tapoa II, died.
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.